Download or read book 'Alids written by Teresa Bernheimer and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first social history of the 'Alids, in the crucial formative period from the Abbasid Revolution of 750 to the Seljuq period of 1100. It examines their rise from a religious point of view and as a social phenomenon, asking how this family attained and