id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
alusur-6874	Durand-Guédy, David 	Vanessa Van Renterghem, Les élites bagdadiennes au temps des Seldjoukides	2018	12	.pdf	application/pdf	6730	273	61	See, notably, the reviews by T. El-Hibri in the International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (2002): 736-738; V. Van Renterghem in the Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 18 (2002): 65-67; and, most importantly, Shahab Ahmed in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 123/1 (2003): 179-182. and studies simply overlooked and, above all, by a thesis which proved untenable.13 That being said, and despite what Van Renterghem implies, her book and Ephrat’s have much in common: the same main biographical sources, the same focus on the ʿulamāʾ (not the only elites dealt with by Van Renterghem, but certainly the most documented), and the same themes (e.g. assessing Baghdad’s attraction or the family background of the ʿulamāʾ). Here, it seems to me that the most important sources on Saljuq Baghdad encapsulate a Ḥanbalī-Abbasid point of view that, to some extent, was embraced by Van Renterghem.	cache/alusur-6874.pdf	txt/alusur-6874.txt