Specific Reading; Arguing for a point
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Within the compass of three (stardard double-space) pages, discuss the portrait of al-Hajjaj, the Umayyad governor of Iraq, offered by the at least nine different sources translated by Schroeder in your assigned readings for this week, pp. 217-230. Do the different sources give us a single consistent picture? Is al-Hajjaj presented as villainous, admirable, or something more complicated?”