'Alids - Bernheimer, Teresa (Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East in the Early Islamic Period, SOAS, University of London)

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 extended its status over the centuries.