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Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage
al-á¸ahab al-masbÅ«k fÄ« á¸ikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafÄʾ wa-l-mulÅ«k. Critical Edition, Annotated Translation, and Study
Series: - Bibliotheca Maqriziana, Volume: 4
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In Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo Van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-á¸ahab al-MasbÅ«k fÄ« á¸ikr man ḤaÄÄa min al-ḪulafÄʾ wa-l-MulÅ«k, a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-MaqrÄ«zÄ« (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the ḥaÄÄ, al-á¸ahab al-MasbÅ«k is re-interpreted here as a complex literary construction that was endowed with different meanings. Through detailed contextualist, narratological, semiotic and codicological analyses Van Steenbergen demonstrates how these meanings were deeply embedded in early-fifteenth century Egyptian transformations, how they changed substantially over time, and how they included particular claims about authorship and about legitimate and good Muslim rule.
Jo Van Steenbergen, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor of Islamic history at Ghent University. He has published extensively on late medieval Syro-Egyptian political, social and cultural history, including Order Out of Chaos. Patronage, Conflict and Mamluk Socio-Political Culture. 741-784/1341-1382 (Brill, 2006).
All interested in the history of the ḥaÄÄ, in Muslim intellectual history and political theory, in premodern Arabic literature, and in medieval and Mamluk political and socio-cultural history