Medieval Arabic Historiography
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 extraor...
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| description | 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 of the sultans Nur-al-Din and Salah al-Din, who are primarily known in modern times as the champions of the anti-Crusade movement. Hirschler shows that these two authors were active interpreters of their society and has considerable room for manoeuvre in both their social environment and the shaping of their texts. Through the use of a fresh and original theoretical approach to pre-modern Arabic historiography, Hirschler presents a new understanding of these texts which have before been relatively neglected, thus providing a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of historiographical studies. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1599502025-05-20T06:32:12Z Medieval Arabic Historiography Hirschler, Konrad Medieval Arabic Historiography Follow ideal Arabic Historical Writing rule Contemporary Society historical Prophet Mu writing Ayyubid Rule prophet Sultan ayyubid Theoretical Jurisprudence ian Ibn Al Athlr history Prophet’s Ascension religious Sharaf Al Dln sciences Quranic Reading Izz Al Dln Medieval Arabic Umar II Religious Sciences Secretary Of State Zangid Dynasty Dynastic Issue Ideal Rule thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies 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 of the sultans Nur-al-Din and Salah al-Din, who are primarily known in modern times as the champions of the anti-Crusade movement. Hirschler shows that these two authors were active interpreters of their society and has considerable room for manoeuvre in both their social environment and the shaping of their texts. Through the use of a fresh and original theoretical approach to pre-modern Arabic historiography, Hirschler presents a new understanding of these texts which have before been relatively neglected, thus providing a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of historiographical studies. 2025-05-20T06:32:11Z 2025-05-20T06:32:11Z 2025-05-19T07:29:24Z 2006 book ONIX_20250519T091213_9781134175956_23 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102085 9781134175956 9780415383776 9780415665469 9780203965290 9781134175901 9781134175949 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159950 eng SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102085/1/9781134175956.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780203965290 10.4324/9780203965290 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781134175956 9780415383776 9780415665469 9780203965290 9781134175901 9781134175949 Routledge 192 Oxford open access |
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