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New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
Proceedings of the themed day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 179
The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and âliterarization,â it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency.
It consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars in three parts. Each part represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry.
Contributors: Rasmus Bech Olsen, VÃctor de Castro León, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Kenneth A. Goudie, Christian Mauder, Evan Metzger, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Clément Onimus, Tarek Sabraa, Iria Santás de Arcos, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Koby Yosef.
It consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars in three parts. Each part represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry.
Contributors: Rasmus Bech Olsen, VÃctor de Castro León, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Kenneth A. Goudie, Christian Mauder, Evan Metzger, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Clément Onimus, Tarek Sabraa, Iria Santás de Arcos, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Koby Yosef.
Jo Van Steenbergen is Professor of Islamic history (UGent, Belgium). His many publications on late medieval Syro-Egyptian history include Caliphate and Kingship (Brill, 2016), Trajectories of State Formation (ed.) (Brill, 2020) and A New History of the Islamic World (Routledge, 2020).
Maya Termonia is Research Associate and Co-ordinator of the Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate-II and the Islamic History Open Data projects (UGent, Belgium). She is Language Instructor for Egyptian Arabic and Arabic Grammar and a specialist in TAFL methodologies.
Maya Termonia is Research Associate and Co-ordinator of the Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate-II and the Islamic History Open Data projects (UGent, Belgium). She is Language Instructor for Egyptian Arabic and Arabic Grammar and a specialist in TAFL methodologies.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: History Writing, Adab and Intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Old and New Readings
âJo Van Steenbergen
1 Al-MaqrÄ«zÄ«âs SulÅ«k, MuqaffÄ, and Durar al-Ê¿UqÅ«d: Trends of âLiterarizationâ in the Historical Corpus of a 9th/15th-Century Egyptian ShÄfiÊ¿Ä« Religious Scholar
âKoby Yosef
2 Language and Style in Mamluk Historiography
âKoby Yosef
3 Ibn al-Khaá¹Ä«b and His Mamluk Reception
âVÃctor De Castro León
4 Ibn QÄá¸Ä« Shuhba (1377â1448): His Life and Historical Work
âTarek Sabraa
5 Andalusi Adab in the Mamluk Period
âIria Santas
6 Social and Intellectual Rivalries and Their Narrative Representations in Biographical Dictionaries: The Representation of Ibn al-á¹¢alÄḥâA Case Study
âMohammad Gharaibeh
7 Ibn Ḥajar al-Ê¿AsqalÄnÄ«âs Texts and Contexts: Producing a Sufi Environment in the Cairo Sultanate
âZacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont
8 If a Governor Falls in Damascus: Early Mamluk Historiography Analyzed through the Story of Sayf al-DÄ«n KarÄy al-ManṣūrÄ«
âRasmus Bech Olsen
9 Al-ʿAynī and His Fellow Historians: Questioning the Discursive Position of a Historian in the Academic Field in the Cairo Sultanate
âClément Onimus
10 Al-BiqÄÊ¿Ä«âs Self-Reflection: A Preliminary Study of the Autobiographical in His Ê¿UnwÄn al-ZamÄn
âKenneth A. Goudie
11 âAnd They Read in That Night Books of Historyâ: Consuming, Discussing, and Producing Texts about the Past in al-GhawrÄ«âs MajÄlis as Social Practices
âChristian Mauder
12 Historical Representation as Resurrection: Al-UdfuwÄ« and the Imitation of AllÄh
âIvan Metzger
13 Literarisierung Reconsidered in the Context of Sultanic Biography: The Case of ShÄfiÊ¿ b. Ê¿AlÄ«âs SÄ«rat al-NÄá¹£ir Muḥammad (BnF MS Arabe 1705)
âGowaart Van Den Bossche
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: History Writing, Adab and Intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Old and New Readings
âJo Van Steenbergen
Part 1 Literarization as Adabization: Intertextual Agencies
1 Al-MaqrÄ«zÄ«âs SulÅ«k, MuqaffÄ, and Durar al-Ê¿UqÅ«d: Trends of âLiterarizationâ in the Historical Corpus of a 9th/15th-Century Egyptian ShÄfiÊ¿Ä« Religious Scholar
âKoby Yosef
2 Language and Style in Mamluk Historiography
âKoby Yosef
3 Ibn al-Khaá¹Ä«b and His Mamluk Reception
âVÃctor De Castro León
4 Ibn QÄá¸Ä« Shuhba (1377â1448): His Life and Historical Work
âTarek Sabraa
5 Andalusi Adab in the Mamluk Period
âIria Santas
Part 2 Literarization as Creative Authorship: Contextual Agencies
6 Social and Intellectual Rivalries and Their Narrative Representations in Biographical Dictionaries: The Representation of Ibn al-á¹¢alÄḥâA Case Study
âMohammad Gharaibeh
7 Ibn Ḥajar al-Ê¿AsqalÄnÄ«âs Texts and Contexts: Producing a Sufi Environment in the Cairo Sultanate
âZacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont
8 If a Governor Falls in Damascus: Early Mamluk Historiography Analyzed through the Story of Sayf al-DÄ«n KarÄy al-ManṣūrÄ«
âRasmus Bech Olsen
9 Al-ʿAynī and His Fellow Historians: Questioning the Discursive Position of a Historian in the Academic Field in the Cairo Sultanate
âClément Onimus
Part 3 Literarization as Social Practice: Textual Agencies
10 Al-BiqÄÊ¿Ä«âs Self-Reflection: A Preliminary Study of the Autobiographical in His Ê¿UnwÄn al-ZamÄn
âKenneth A. Goudie
11 âAnd They Read in That Night Books of Historyâ: Consuming, Discussing, and Producing Texts about the Past in al-GhawrÄ«âs MajÄlis as Social Practices
âChristian Mauder
12 Historical Representation as Resurrection: Al-UdfuwÄ« and the Imitation of AllÄh
âIvan Metzger
13 Literarisierung Reconsidered in the Context of Sultanic Biography: The Case of ShÄfiÊ¿ b. Ê¿AlÄ«âs SÄ«rat al-NÄá¹£ir Muḥammad (BnF MS Arabe 1705)
âGowaart Van Den Bossche
Index
All interested in medieval history and Islamic history, especially Mamluk studies, and anyone concerned with historiography and Arabic literature.