Black American’s attitudes toward the Great Emancipator is focus of Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln (University Illinois Press), edited Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman. The essays show that Americans’ “plumb deeper than his reputation as Emancipator,” writes Morel. Indeed, Americans; from presidency to recent past evince a “’persistent ambivalence,’” write Norman ...

al-ghallābī is rated as among the shī‘ī authors of the third/eighth century, through whom many historical traditions have been related in shī‘ī and sunnī sources. examining the status of al-ghallābī’s traditions in the two major sects (of shī‘a and sunnī), this writing is intended to find the reason for the permeation of his traditions into the sources belonging to the sunnīs – who are very cau...