Overview

This book offers students and scholars an introduction to and insight into the wealth of historiographies produced in various Muslim milieus. Four articles deal with the classical period: archaeology and history in early Islamic Amman; an analysis of sources dealing with Muwaḥḥid North Africa; al-Maqrizī’s prosopographical production; the rise of early Ottoman historiography. Three examine sacred history as historiography: in 10th century Fatimid Egypt; in the 16th century Indian Chishtī Sufi milieu; and in the Sino-Muslim Confucian tradition in Qing China. The final two articles provide fresh approaches to historiography by respectively looking into the sijils of Ottoman Cairo as historical sources and by highlighting the regional approach to the writing of the history of the Indian Ocean. Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Heather J. Empey, Derryl MacLean, Sami G. Massoud, Murat Cem Mengüç, Reem Meshal, Hyondo Park, Patricia Risso, Shafique N. Virani and Michael Wood.

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Author:   Sami G. Massoud
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   166
Weight:   0.598kg
ISBN:  

9789004415164

ISBN 10:   9004415165
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   21 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sami G. Massoud Part 1: Classical Historiography 1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman  Michael Wood 2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate  Heather J. Empey 3 Al-Maqrīzī and His al-Tārīkh al-kabīr al-muqaffā li-Miṣr. Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work  Frédéric Bauden 4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmedi’s Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts  Murat Cem Mengüç Part 2: Sacred History 5 Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān’s Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Ta‌ʾwīl): the Birth of Jesus  Shafique N. Virani 6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the Sīrat of Bandagī Miyān Shāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān  Derryl N. MacLean 7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhu’s Shengzan  Hyondo Park Part 3: Perspectives 8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo  Reem Meshal 9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean  Patricia Risso Index

Reviews

Aposiopesis, Anagnorisis as the transference of recognition from character to reader and spectator, the whole array of articles provide a scholastic reader with plenty of information for further research on Language, Poetry and Prose. Stavros Nikolaidis in:Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).

Author Information

Sami G. Massoud, Ph.D. (2005), is the author of The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period (Leiden, 2007), about Mamlūk historiography. He teaches social sciences at Collège Ahuntsic in Montreal, Canada and is also interested in the medieval and modern histories of India and China.

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