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Author Steenbergen, J. van, author.

Title Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage : a critical edition, annotated translation, and study of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī ḏikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafāʼ wa-l-mulūk / by Jo Van Steenbergen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Bibliotheca Maqriziana Ser. ; v. 4
Bibliotheca Maqriziana Ser.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Study-the cultural biography of a fifteenth-century literary text: Contexts: introducing the hagg, al-Maqrizi, and al-Dahab al-masbuk (seventh -- fifteenth centuries) -- The hagg ritual: forms, function, and religious meanings -- Pilgriming rulers and the hagg's political meanings in Islamic history -- Cairo sultans, Meccan sharifs, and the late medieval hagg -- Military commanders and religious scholars between late medieval Mecca and Cairo -- Introducing a scholar between late medieval Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's authorship -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's al-Dahab al-masbuk -- Texts: al-Dahab al-masbuk between narratives, stories, and meanings -- The hagg in Arabic writing and literature: between fiqh and tarih -- Introducing al-Dahab al-masbuk: Prophet, caliphs, and kings between narratives and stories -- The sources of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between habar and targamah -- The meanings of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between author and ruler -- Production, reproduction, and consumption: al-Dahab al-masbuk's life and times (fifteenth -- twentieth centuries) -- Producing al-Dahab al-masbuk (821-841/1418-1438) -- Reproducing al-Dahab al-masbuk (sixteenth -- twentieth centuries) -- Consuming al-Dahab al-masbuk: from memory to history.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Islamic Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.
Islamic Empire.
Kings and rulers.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Subject Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca -- Early works to 1800.
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Saudi Arabia -- Mecca.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Early works.
Biographies.
Added Author Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Dhahab al-masbūk fī dhikr man ḥajja min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-mulūk.
Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Dhahab al-masbūk fī dhikr man ḥajja min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-mulūk. English.
Other Form: Print version: Steenbergen, J. van. Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004325685 (DLC) 2016040250
ISBN 9789004332362 (electronic book)
9004332367 (electronic book)
9789004325685 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004325689 (hardback ; alkaline paper)