108 r Yehoshua Frenkel
- Numerous accounts report on persecutions and other harassments of the People
of the Book by Islamic authorities. Al-Maqrizi, al-Suluk li-ma ̔rifat duwal al-muluk,
1:753. - Cf. the story on al-Ma’mun and Sa ̔id b. Ziyad in Damascus and the pact that
the Prophet presumably gave to Tamim al-Dari. Al-Tabari, Ta’rikh al-rusul wal-muluk,
1:1142–43 (ah 218); Abu al-Qasim ̔Ali Ibn ̔Asakir (499–571/1075–1176), Ta’rikh madinat
dimashq wa-dhikru fadliha wa-tasmiyat man hallaha min al-amathil au ijtaza bi-nawa-
hiha min waridiha wa-ahaliha, ed. M. al- ̔Amrawi (Damascus 1415/1995), 21:60–61 (no.
2476 quoting al-Tabri); Muhammad Ibn Manzur (630–711), Mukhtasar ta’rikh dimashq
li-ibn ̔asakir (Damascus: Dar al-Fikr, 1989), 9:297–98 (no. 145). - “History, Counter-History, and Narrative,” Alpayim 4 (1991): 206–13 (Hebrew).
For a critic of Funkenstein, see David Biale, “Counter-History and Jewish Polemics
against Christianity: The Sefer toldot yeshu and the Sefer zerubavel,” Jewish Social Studies
6 (1999): 130–32. - Cf. Muhammad ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra, al-Durra al-mudi’a fi al-dawla al-
zahiriya (A Chronicle of Damascus, 786–99/1389–97), ed. and trans. W. M. Brinner
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963), 1:126–29.