Medieval Arabic historiography : authors as actors / / Konrad Hirschler

• Autore: Hirschler Konrad
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.0722; 907.2
• Soggetto topico: Islam - Historiography; Islam - History - To 1500; Islam - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500; Islamic civilization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Medieval Arabic historiography
• ISBN: 1-134-17594-9; 1-134-17595-7; 1-280-55273-5; 9786610552733; 0-203-96529-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348224903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; ; 5.