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Studies in Islamic Historiography
Essays in Honour of Professor Donald P. Little
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 166
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This book offers students and scholars an introduction to and insight into the wealth of historiographies produced in various Muslim milieus. Four articles deal with the classical period: archaeology and history in early Islamic Amman; an analysis of sources dealing with Muwaḥḥid North Africa; al-MaqrizÄ«âs prosopographical production; the rise of early Ottoman historiography.
Three examine sacred history as historiography: in 10th century Fatimid Egypt; in the 16th century Indian Chishtī Sufi milieu; and in the Sino-Muslim Confucian tradition in Qing China. The final two articles provide fresh approaches to historiography by respectively looking into the sijils of Ottoman Cairo as historical sources and by highlighting the regional approach to the writing of the history of the Indian Ocean.
Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Heather J. Empey, Derryl MacLean, Sami G. Massoud, Murat Cem Mengüç, Reem Meshal, Hyondo Park, Patricia Risso, Shafique N. Virani and Michael Wood.
Three examine sacred history as historiography: in 10th century Fatimid Egypt; in the 16th century Indian Chishtī Sufi milieu; and in the Sino-Muslim Confucian tradition in Qing China. The final two articles provide fresh approaches to historiography by respectively looking into the sijils of Ottoman Cairo as historical sources and by highlighting the regional approach to the writing of the history of the Indian Ocean.
Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Heather J. Empey, Derryl MacLean, Sami G. Massoud, Murat Cem Mengüç, Reem Meshal, Hyondo Park, Patricia Risso, Shafique N. Virani and Michael Wood.
Sami G. Massoud, Ph.D. (2005), is the author of The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period (Leiden, 2007), about Mamlūk historiography. He teaches social sciences at Collège Ahuntsic in Montreal, Canada and is also interested in the medieval and modern histories of India and China.
âAposiopesis, Anagnorisis as the transference of recognition from character to reader and spectator, the whole array of articles provide a scholastic reader with plenty of information for further research on Language, Poetry and Prose.â
Stavros Nikolaidis in:Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).
Stavros Nikolaidis in:Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âSami G. Massoud
1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman
âMichael Wood
2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate
âHeather J. Empey
3 Al-MaqrÄ«zÄ« and His al-TÄrÄ«kh al-kabÄ«r al-muqaffÄ li-Miá¹£r.
Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work
âFrédéric Bauden
4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmediâs Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts
âMurat Cem Mengüç
5 Hierohistory in QÄá¸Ä« l-NuÊ¿mÄnâs Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (AsÄs al-TaâʾwÄ«l): the Birth of Jesus
âShafique N. Virani
6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the SÄ«rat of BandagÄ« MiyÄn ShÄh Ê¿Abd al-RaḥmÄn
âDerryl N. MacLean
7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhuâs Shengzan
âHyondo Park
8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo
âReem Meshal
9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean
âPatricia Risso
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âSami G. Massoud
Part 1: Classical Historiography
1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman
âMichael Wood
2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate
âHeather J. Empey
3 Al-MaqrÄ«zÄ« and His al-TÄrÄ«kh al-kabÄ«r al-muqaffÄ li-Miá¹£r.
Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work
âFrédéric Bauden
4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmediâs Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts
âMurat Cem Mengüç
Part 2: Sacred History
5 Hierohistory in QÄá¸Ä« l-NuÊ¿mÄnâs Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (AsÄs al-TaâʾwÄ«l): the Birth of Jesus
âShafique N. Virani
6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the SÄ«rat of BandagÄ« MiyÄn ShÄh Ê¿Abd al-RaḥmÄn
âDerryl N. MacLean
7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhuâs Shengzan
âHyondo Park
Part 3: Perspectives
8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo
âReem Meshal
9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean
âPatricia Risso
Index
Students and scholars of Islamic history and historiography