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1 online resource. |
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Islamic history and civilization,
0929-2403 ;
179
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Islamic history and civilization.
0929-2403 ; 179.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"New Readings in Arabic Historiography contributes to research on Arabic texts of history from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and "literarization," it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. This edited volume consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars. Each of the volume's three parts represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry. Contributors: Rasmus Bech Olsen, Víctor de Castro León, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Kenneth A. Goudie, Christian Mauder, Evan Metzger, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Clément Onimus, Tarek Sabraa, Iria Santás de Arcos, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Koby Yosef"-- Provided by publisher |
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Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: History Writing, Adab and Intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Old and New Readings -- Jo Van Steenbergen -- Part 1 Literarization as Adabization: Intertextual Agencies -- 1 Al-Maqrīzī's Sulūk, Muqaffā, and Durar al-ʻUqūd: Trends of "Literarization" in the Historical Corpus of a 9th/15th-Century Egyptian Shāfiʻī Religious Scholar -- Koby Yosef -- 2 Language and Style in Mamluk Historiography -- Koby Yosef -- 3 Ibn al-Khaṭīb and His Mamluk Reception -- Víctor De Castro León -- 4 Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba (1377-1448): His Life and Historical Work -- Tarek Sabraa -- 5 Andalusi Adab in the Mamluk Period -- Iria Santas -- Part 2 Literarization as Creative Authorship: Contextual Agencies -- 6 Social and Intellectual Rivalries and Their Narrative Representations in Biographical Dictionaries: The Representation of Ibn al-Ṛalāḥ-A Case Study -- Mohammad Gharaibeh -- 7 Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī's Texts and Contexts: Producing a Sufi Environment in the Cairo Sultanate -- Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont -- 8 If a Governor Falls in Damascus: Early Mamluk Historiography Analyzed through the Story of Sayf al-Dīn Karāy al-Manṛūrī -- Rasmus Bech Olsen -- 9 Al-ʻAynī and His Fellow Historians: Questioning the Discursive Position of a Historian in the Academic Field in the Cairo Sultanate -- Clément Onimus -- Part 3 Literarization as Social Practice: Textual Agencies -- 10 Al-Biqāʻī's Self-Reflection: A Preliminary Study of the Autobiographical in His ʻUnwān al-Zamān -- Kenneth A. Goudie -- 11 "And They Read in That Night Books of History": Consuming, Discussing, and Producing Texts about the Past in al-Ghawrī's Majālis as Social Practices -- Christian Mauder -- 12 Historical Representation as Resurrection: Al-Udfuwī and the Imitation of Allāh -- Ivan Metzger -- 13 Literarisierung Reconsidered in the Context of Sultanic Biography: The Case of Shāfiʻ b. ʻAlī's Sīrat al-Nāṛir Muḥammad (BnF MS Arabe 1705) -- Gowaart Van Den Bossche -- Index. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Mamelukes -- Historiography -- Congresses.
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Mamelukes -- Historiography. |
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Mamelukes. |
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Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517 -- Historiography -- Congresses.
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Egypt. |
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History. |
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1250-1517 |
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Historiography. |
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Syria -- History -- 1260-1516 -- Historiography -- Congresses.
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Syria. |
| Chronological Term |
1260-1516 |
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HISTORY / Middle East / General. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Steenbergen, J. van, editor.
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Termonia, Maya, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies (5th: 2018 : Ghent, Belgium). New readings in Arabic historiography from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004447028 (DLC) 2021000508 |
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9789004458901 (ebook) |
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9004458905 |
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9789004447028 (hardback) |
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