Format:
VI, 269 S.
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Ill.
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25 cm
ISBN:
9004117946
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9789004117945
Series Statement:
The medieval Mediterranean 31
Content:
"History writing in Islamic Egypt was highly developed and no country in the Middle East has a richer or more impressive tradition. This book is a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, examining different authors, their works and the intellectual climate in which they flourished. Due prominence is given to the great historians of the Mamluk period (c. 1260-1517) but also to the less well-known writers of Ottoman times. The essays are also enlivened by insights into personalities and customs of the time." "This book will be of interest to historians of the Islamic world in mediaeval and modern times, and to all those who are concerned with history writing as an intellectual discourse."--Jacket
Note:
"The papers collected in this volume were given at a conference on 'The Historiography of Islamic Egypt' held in the University of St. Andrews, 28 - 31 August, 1997." - Beitr. teilw. engl., teilw. franz
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Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean : John Wansborough and the historiography of mediaeval Egypt
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Egypt and Aleppo in Ibn al-ʻAdīm's Bughyat al-ṭalab fī taʼrikh Ḥalab
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Al-Nuwayrī as a historian of the Mongols
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Baybars al-Manṣūrī's Zubdat al-fikra
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ʻAlī-al-Baghdādī and the joy of Mamluk sex
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Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk historical writing
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L'évolution de la composition du genre de Khiṭaṭ en Egypte musulmane
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Al-Maqrīzī's account of the transition from Turkish to Circassian Mamluk sultanate : history in the service of faith
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Al-Maqrīzī and Ibn Taghrī Birdī as historians of contemporary events
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Al-Biqāʼī's Chronicle : a fifteenth century learned man's reflection on his time and world
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Al-Maqrīzī, the master, and Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī, the disciple--whose historical writing can claim more topicality and modernity?
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Disruptive "others" as depicted in the chronicles of the late Mamlūk period
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Attitudes toward the Ottomans in Egyptian historiography during Ottoman rule
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The Egyptian-Yemeni symbiosis as reflected (or unreflected) in Ottoman-era chronicles
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Al-Jabartī's ʻAjāʼib al-athār fi al-tarājim waʼl-akhbār and the Arabic histories of Ottoman Egypt in the eighteenth century
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The chronicles of Ottoman Egypt : history or entertainment
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Egyptian history in the modern Egyptian novel
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Ägypten
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Geschichte 950-1800
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Geschichte 950-1800
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Kennedy, Hugh 1947-
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