Islamic Historiography
Islamic Historiography

Author: Chase F. Robinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521629362

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How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in Chase F. Robinson's Islamic Historiography, an introduction to the principal genres, issues, and problems of Islamic historical writing in Arabic, that stresses the social and political functions of historical writing in the Islamic world. Beginning with the origins of the tradition in the eighth and ninth centuries and covering its development until the beginning of the sixteenth century, this is an authoritative and yet accessible guide through a complex and forbidding field, which is intended for readers with little or no background in Islamic history or Arabic.

Studies in Islamic History and Institutions
Studies in Islamic History and Institutions

Author: Shelomo Dov Goitein

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9004179313

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Goitein s selection of studies dealing with Islamic institutions and social history offers a general introduction to Islamic civilization by one who lived all his life with Islam. His fruit of specialized research gives a rounded view of important aspects of Islamic civilization and provides the student with an opportunity to acquaint himself not only with the results of research, but also with the methods by which they were obtained. With a new foreword by Norman A. Stillman

The Islamic Scholarly Tradition
The Islamic Scholarly Tradition

Author: Michael A. Cook

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 9004194355

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Bringing together the expansive scholarly expertise of former students of Professor Michael Allan Cook, this volume contains highly original articles in Islamic history, law, and thought. The contributions range from studies in the pre-Islamic calendar, to the "blood-money group" in Islamic law, to transformations in Arabic logic.

Studies in Islamic Historiography
Studies in Islamic Historiography

Author: Sami G. Massoud

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9004415297

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Studies in Islamic Historiography: Essays in Honour of Professor Donald P. Little examines historiographical production in a variety of milieus and traditions, from the classical to the early modern periods.

Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography

Author: Tayeb El-Hibri

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-11-25

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521650236

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The history of the early Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri s book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.

Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy
Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy

Author: Andrew Peacock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-03-06

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1134146906

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The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world.

Poetics of Islamic Historiography
Poetics of Islamic Historiography

Author: Boaz Shoshan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-10-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9047405099

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This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Ṭabarī's History. Four major events in the history of early Islam are then subject to analysis based on literary criticism and are shown to produce a new meaning.

Islamic Historiography
Islamic Historiography

Author: Tarif Khalidi

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780873952828

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The importance of Muslim historical writing in the medieval period and the fact that few detailed studies exist, make Professor Khalidi's book of special importance both to Arabists and to medievalists. It may be read both as a source for Muslim and non-Muslim history and for the light it sheds on Arabic/Islamic civilization in its prime.

Islamic History
Islamic History

Author: R. Stephen Humphreys

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0691214239

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This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life of the peasantry. Each chapter pursues four questions. What concrete research problems are likely to be most challenging and productive? What resources do we possess for dealing with these problems? What strategies can we devise to exploit our resources most effectively? What is the current state of the scholarly literature for the topic under study?