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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] Is that the same Al-Tabari mentioned here? This could mean the idea that the Zanj revolt was a slave revolt is based on mistranslations! Shaban has a different interpretation because he has the correct translations! "Islamic History" By M. A. Shaban http://books.google.com/books?id=Wkqlp-lHllcC&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q=&f=false [b]On the Zanj revolt[/b]: [QUOTE][qb]As it happens this is one of the best reported events of the period and by no lesser authority than Tabari himself, who witnessed some of its developments and quotes directly the accounts of some of the participants… All the talk about slaves rising against the wretched conditions of work in the salt marshes of Basra is a figment of the imagination and has no support in the sources…[/qb][/QUOTE]"Translation and the Colonial Imaginary: Ibn Khaldun Orientalist", by Abdelmajid Hannoum © 2003 Wesleyan University. http://www.jstor.org/pss/3590803 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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