Studies in Islamic Historiography

Essays in Honour of Professor Donald P. Little

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2019 | Approx. 270 pp.
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-41516-4 (ISBN)

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Studies in Islamic Historiography: Essays in Honour of Professor Donald P. Little examines historiographical production in a variety of milieus and traditions, from the classical to the early modern periods.

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.

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.

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	Islamic History and Civilization ; 166
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	598 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-41516-5 / 9004415165
ISBN-13	978-90-04-41516-4 / 9789004415164
Zustand	Neuware