New readings in Arabic historiography from late medieval Egypt and Syria : proceedings of the themed day of the fifth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies /
"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 constructed...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | Islamic history and civilization.
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Table of Contents:
- 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-Ṣalāḥ-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-Manṣūrī
- 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 born ʻAlī's Sīrat al-Nāṣir Muḥammad (BnF MS Arabe 1705)
- Gowaart Van Den Bossche
- Index.