Records of the Hashimite dynasties : a twentieth century documentary history   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2438643Y

  Author(s)

  de L. Rush, Alan

  City

  Cambridge 

  Country

  United Kingdom 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  - 

  Date of Publication

  - 

  Publisher

  Archive Editions  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  - 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  de L. Rush, Alan

  Publisher

  Archive Editions  

• Description

  15-volume set, approximately 10,000 pages. ISBN of this edition is 1852075902, subsequent editions use 9781852075903 (print) and 9781139964678 (e-book). The story of the Hashimites dates back over fourteen hundred years to the lifetime of Hashim, great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632 A.D.) and grandfather of Abbas, the forerunner of the Abbasid Caliphs. Most Muslims accept this lineage and it is this traditional consensus that legitimised the ascendancy of the Hashimites in the Holy Land for over six centuries, until their expulsion by Ibn Saud in 1925. This work is an encyclopaedia of authentic historical documents, tracing in detail through fifteen volumes the destiny of this most ancient and distinguished family in the Middle East. Records of the Hashimite Dynasties concentrates on the modern period and provides the reader with a detailed study of the convergence of Hashimite and British interests that led to the Arab Revolt during World War I and the establishment of Hashimite rule in Iraq, Jordan and, briefly, in Syria following the defeat of Turkey. Many hundreds of documents are collected and made public in this extensive work, many of them previously hidden or scattered in obscure archives, some of great political importance and all of historic interest.