Medieval Islamic Historiography
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Author |
: Heather N. Keaney |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2013-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134081066 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134081065 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Islamic Historiography by : Heather N. Keaney
This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of those that portray Uthman as a saintly companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Through a comparative analysis of authors between genres and time periods, this book shows how authors were able to convey their personal perspectives on important religio-political tensions that emerged through the revolt against Uthman, namely the tension between Sunnis and Shiis, religious and political authority and appeals to maintain stability and unity vs. appeals for greater justice. This last debate, which in many ways began with the revolt against Uthman, has been repeated most recently in the Arab Spring. This work therefore provides readers with helpful historical context for important contemporary debates.
Author |
: Chase F. Robinson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521629365 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521629362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islamic Historiography by : Chase F. Robinson
How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in Chase F. Robinson's Islamic Historiography, an introduction to the principal genres, issues, and problems of Islamic historical writing in Arabic, that stresses the social and political functions of historical writing in the Islamic world. Beginning with the origins of the tradition in the eighth and ninth centuries and covering its development until the beginning of the sixteenth century, this is an authoritative and yet accessible guide through a complex and forbidding field, which is intended for readers with little or no background in Islamic history or Arabic.
Author |
: John Joseph Saunders |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 1965 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415059145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415059143 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Medieval Islam by : John Joseph Saunders
This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages, and will help the non-Orientalist to understand something of the relationship between Islam and Christendom in those centuries.
Author |
: Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2006-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134175956 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134175957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Arabic Historiography by : Konrad Hirschler
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 HISTORICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND -- chapter 3 SOCIAL CONTEXTS -- chapter 4 INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS -- chapter 5 TEXTUAL AGENCY I: Titles, final sections and historicization -- chapter 6 TEXTUAL AGENCY II: Micro-arrangement, motifs and political thought -- chapter 7 RECEPTION AFTER THE SEVENTH/THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- chapter 8 CONCLUSION.
Author |
: Andrew Peacock |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2007-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134146901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134146906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy by : Andrew Peacock
The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world.
Author |
: Alex Mallett |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2014-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004280687 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004280685 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant by : Alex Mallett
In Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant seven leading scholars examine the historical writings of seven medieval Muslim historians whose works provide the core chronographical texts for reconstructing the events of the crusading period, 1097-1291. Each chapter examines the life of and influences on each historian, their overall writings, and their historical works related to the Crusades. Each historical text is examined for the current state of modern research, the sources and working method of the author, and its use and relevance for crusader studies and other fields of research. This volume will be of use to anyone studying the events of the Crusades, of Islamic History, or of Arabic Historiography in the medieval period. Contributors include: Frédéric Bauden, Niall Christie, Anne-Marie Eddé, Konrad Hirschler, Alex Mallett, and Françoise Micheau, Lutz Richter-Bernburg
Author |
: Aziz Al-Azmeh |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2007-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9786155211409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 615521140X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Times of History by : Aziz Al-Azmeh
This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality, the uses of the past, historical periodisation, historical categorisation, and the constitution of historical objects, not least those called "civilisation" and "Islam". One of the aims of the book is to apply to Islamic materials the standard conceptual equipment used in historical study, and to exercise a large-scale comparativist outlook.
Author |
: Fozia Bora |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2019-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786726056 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178672605X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World by : Fozia Bora
In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969–1171CE). For in two centuries of rule over Egypt and North Africa, the Isma'ili Fatimids had left few self-generated historiographical records. Instead, it fell to Ayyubid and Mamluk historians to represent the dynasty to posterity. This monograph sets out to explain how later historians preserved, interpreted and re-organised earlier textual sources. Mamluk historians engaged in a sophisticated archival practice within historiography, rather than uncritically reproducing earlier reports. In a new diplomatic edition, translation and analysis of Mamluk historian Ibn al-Furat's account of late Fatimid rule in The History of Dynasties and Kings, a widely known but barely copied universal chronicle of Islamic history, Fozia Bora traces the survival of historiographical narratives from Fatimid Egypt. Through Ibn al-Furat's text, Bora demonstrates archivality as the heuristic key to Mamluk historical writing. This book is essential for all scholars working on the written culture and history of the medieval Islamic world, and paves the way for a more nuanced reading of pre-modern Arabic chronicles and of the epistemic environment in which they were produced.
Author |
: Mohamed Taher |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8174885390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788174885395 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Muslim Historiography by : Mohamed Taher
Historical Writings Have For Centuries Constituted An Important And Major Part Of Arab-Muslim Scholarship. This Volume Contains Important Information On: Medieval Arabic Historiography; The Concept Of History In The Modern Arab World; Notes On The Arab Calendar Before Islam; The Topography Of The Hijrah; The Earliest Persian Manuscripts; Arab Historiography; Shibli S Studies In Islamic History; A Valuable Historical Ms. Of Arabic Al-Iktifa; Arabic Historical And Literary Sources; Sayf B. Umar And The Battle Of The Camel; The Reign Of Mu Awiyah; The Tarikh-I-Bayhaq; Al-Beruni And The Bed Of Amu Darya; Ibn Khaldun And His History Of Islamic Civilization; Ibn Khaldun On The Origin, Growth And Decay Of Cities Etc.Students, Scholars And Academics In The Field Of History, Religion, Philosophy And Culture Will Find This Volume Most Useful And Informative.
Author |
: R. Stephen Humphreys |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2020-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691214238 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691214239 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islamic History by : R. Stephen Humphreys
This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life of the peasantry. Each chapter pursues four questions. What concrete research problems are likely to be most challenging and productive? What resources do we possess for dealing with these problems? What strategies can we devise to exploit our resources most effectively? What is the current state of the scholarly literature for the topic under study?