Description
Bibliotheca Islamica (BI) is the Orient-Institut Beirut's platform for the critical edition of mainly Arabic texts. The series dates back to 1929, when Hellmut Ritter edited the Kitab Maqalat al-islamiyin wa- tilaf al-musallin of Abu l-Hasan Ali al-Asari, a seminal text on dogmatic positions in the early Islamic period. Since then, the OIB has published more than fifty titles in this series.
Ansab al-Asraf is a genealogical encyclopedia of the Arab-Islamic state. This volume contains biographies of the later Umayyad (Marwanid) caliphs. Each biography of these deals with the policies of the concerned caliph and his governors, his children, and his internal and external relations, as well as with rebellious movements in his era.
Muhammad al-Hugairi, Beirut, Libanon.
