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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348224903321

Autore

Hirschler Konrad

Titolo

Medieval Arabic historiography : authors as actors / / Konrad Hirschler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-134-17594-9

1-134-17595-7

1-280-55273-5

9786610552733

0-203-96529-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; ; 5

Disciplina

297.0722

907.2

Soggetti

Islam - Historiography

Islam - History - To 1500

Islam - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Islamic civilization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-172) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON ROMANIZATION AND TERMINOLOGY; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 HISTORICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND; 3 SOCIAL CONTEXTS; 4 INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS; 5 TEXTUAL AGENCY I: Titles, final sections and historicization; 6 TEXTUAL AGENCY II: Micro-arrangement, motifs and political thought; 7 RECEPTION AFTER THE SEVENTH/THIRTEENTH CENTURY; 8 CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular focus on two



well-known texts: Abu Shama's The Book of the Two Gardens, and Ibn Wasil's The Dissipater of Anxieties. These texts describe events during the life