Islamic history : a framework for inquiry /
R. Stephen Humphreys.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.
- xiv, 401 p. 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-394) and index.
Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a s