Medieval Arabic Historiography
Medieval Arabic Historiography

Author: Konrad Hirschler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1134175957

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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 HISTORICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND -- chapter 3 SOCIAL CONTEXTS -- chapter 4 INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS -- chapter 5 TEXTUAL AGENCY I: Titles, final sections and historicization -- chapter 6 TEXTUAL AGENCY II: Micro-arrangement, motifs and political thought -- chapter 7 RECEPTION AFTER THE SEVENTH/THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- chapter 8 CONCLUSION.

The Rise of Historical Writing Among the Arabs
The Rise of Historical Writing Among the Arabs

Author: Abd Al-Aziz Duri

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1400853885

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This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Published in Beirut in 1960, Duri's book was the first comprehensive effort to trace the origins and early development of Arab historical writing, and to resolve some extremely complex and still debated questions about the reliability of the Arabic historical sources. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature
Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature

Author: Julie Scott Meisami

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780415185714

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This reference work covers the classical, transitional and modern periods. Editors and contributors cover an international scope of Arabic literature in many countries.

Gatekeepers of the Arab Past
Gatekeepers of the Arab Past

Author: Yoav Di-Capua

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-09-09

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 052094481X

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This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Gatekeepers of the Past examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historucal literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the post-colonial state.