| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Journal and Reference Works Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction ; Peripheries and Empires ; Reading Local Histories as Social History ; Sources. |
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Conceptual Frameworks Structure and Chapter Summaries ; 2 Methodologies for Reading Hybrid Identities and Imagined Histories ; Defining ''Local History'' ; Defining ''Iran'' and ''Persia'' ; Distinguishing Narrative Local Histories from Biographical Dictionaries. |
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Hybrid Identities and Gestures to ''Center'' the ''Peripheries'' Theoretical Considerations ; Remembering and Forgetting, Writing, and Rewriting ; Center-Periphery Relations ; Imagined Histories and their Uses ; The Real Contexts of Imagined Histories ; 3 Contexts and Authorship. |
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Historical Background Development of Perso-Islamic Historiography ; Contexts and Authorship ; Political and Military Turning Points in the Caspian Region ; Tārīkh-i Ṭabaristān and its Author, Ibn Isfandiyār; Political and Military Developments in Khurasan, Including Bukhara and Bayhaq |
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Tārīkh-i Bukhārā: Arabic Original by Narshakhī and Persian Translation by QubavīThe Region of Bayhaq ; The Question of 'Alids and Shi'a in Bayhaq; Tārīkh-i Bayhaq and its Author, Ibn Funduq; Political and Military Turning Points in Qum ; Tārīkh-i Qum: A Composite Text; Sistan in Context ; Tārīkh-Sīstān and its Anonymous Author; Local History and its Audience. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Iran -- History -- 640-1256 -- Historiography.
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Iran -- History -- 1256-1500 -- Historiography.
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Turkey -- History -- To 1453 -- Historiography.
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Turkey -- History -- To 1453.
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HISTORY -- Historiography. |
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Iran. |
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Historiography |
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Iran |
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Turkey |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hanaoka, Mimi. Authority and identity in medieval Islamic historiography. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107127036 1107127033 (DLC) 2016013911 (OCoLC)948562293 |
| ISBN |
9781316788127 (electronic bk.) |
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1316788121 (electronic bk.) |
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131678780X |
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9781316787809 |
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9781316411506 |
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1316411508 |
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9781316787168 |
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1316787168 |
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9781107127036 |
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1107127033 |
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1316787168 |
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1316411508 |
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9781107565838 (paperback) |
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