Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004476523
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9789004117945
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 31
Content:
History writing in Islamic Egypt was highly developed and no country in the Middle East has a richer or more developed 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 the Ottoman period. 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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean: John Wansborough and the Historiography of Mediaeval Egypt -- Michael Brett 1 -- 2. Egypt and Aleppo in Ibn al-'Adim's Bughyat al-talab fi ta'rikh Halab -- David Morray 13 -- 3. Al-Nuwayri as a Historian of the Mongols -- Reuven Amitai 23 -- 4. Baybars al-Mansuri's Zubdat al-Fikra -- Donald Richards 37 -- 5. 'Ali-al-Baghdadi and the Joy of Mamluk Sex -- Robert Irwin 45 -- 6. Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk Historical Writing -- Nasser Rabbat 59 -- 7. l'Evolution de la composition du genre de Khitat en Egypte musulmane -- Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid 77 -- 8. Al-Maqrizi's account of the Transition from Turkish to Circassian Mamluk Sultanate: History in the Service of Faith -- Amalia Levanoni 93 -- 9. Al-Maqrizi and Ibn Taghri Birdi as Historians of Contemporary Events -- Irmeli Perho 107 -- 10. Al-Biqa'i's Chronicle: a Fifteenth Century Learned Man's Reflection on his Time and World -- Li Guo 121 -- 11. Al-Maqrizi, the Master, and Abu Hamid al-Qudsi, the Disciple - Whose Historical Writing Can Claim More Topicality and Modernity? -- Ulrich Haarmann 149 -- 12. Disruptive "Others" as Depicted in the Chronicles of the Late Mamluk Period -- Carl F. Petry 167 -- 13. Attitudes toward the Ottomans in Egyptian Historiography during Ottoman rule -- Michael Winter 195 -- 14. The Egyptian-Yemeni Symbiosis as Reflected (or Unreflected) in Ottoman-era Chronicles -- Jane Hathaway 211 -- 15. Al-Jabarti's 'Aja'ib al-athar fi al-Tarajim wa'l-akhbar and the Arabic Histories of Ottoman Egypt in the Eighteenth Century -- Daniel Crecelius 221 -- 16. The Chronicles of Ottoman Egypt: History or Entertainment -- Nelly Hanna 237 -- 17. Egyptian History in the Modern Egyptian Novel -- Paul Starkey 251 -- Index 263.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800) Leiden : BRILL, 2001 ISBN 9789004117945
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004476523
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