1952/12/01 by Don S. Rice · 15 citations
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paper · doi:10.2307/3642366
published in Anatolian Studies 2, 36-84 (Cambridge University Press)
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No attempt has been made yet to collect the widely scattered information on the history and topography of Ḥarrān for the period from the Arab conquest in A.D. 639 until the destruction of the city by the Mongols in A.D. 1260. Such a compilation would form a useful sequel to the monograph of Adam Mez, which covers the period up to the Arab conquest and to Chwolsohn's work on the Sabians which, despite its venerable age, remains the standard work on the subject. Several monographs on Ḥarrān were written during the Middle Ages but no Mss of them have so far been discovered. A good deal of material can be collected from historical and geographical texts. Of these none is more detailed or more worthy of attention than that of Ibn Sh addād. The account of this writer, available so far only in Ms, is contained in a chapter of his Survey of Syria and the Jazīra.