Umayyad and early Abbasid inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina

This article offers a translation and discussion of chapter relatively little known late third/ninth- or early fourth/tenth-century text that contains transcription the inscriptions could be seen around Prophet’s Mosque in Medina after renovation work undertaken there on orders third Abbasid caliph, Muḥammad al-Mahdī. thus adds significantly to our corpus from imperial monuments. The discusses sources information about these Mosque, fate Umayyad-era period, what new Abbasid-era have tell us Abbasids’ claims authority decades immediately following their seizure power.