Medieval Islamic Historiography
Medieval Islamic Historiography

Author: Heather N. Keaney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1134081065

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This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b. Affan and the revolt against him. By comparing treatments of Uthman in pietistic literature and universal chronicles, the work traces the gradual silencing of more critical accounts in favor of those that portray Uthman as a saintly companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Through a comparative analysis of authors between genres and time periods, this book shows how authors were able to convey their personal perspectives on important religio-political tensions that emerged through the revolt against Uthman, namely the tension between Sunnis and Shiis, religious and political authority and appeals to maintain stability and unity vs. appeals for greater justice. This last debate, which in many ways began with the revolt against Uthman, has been repeated most recently in the Arab Spring. This work therefore provides readers with helpful historical context for important contemporary debates.

A History of Medieval Islam
A History of Medieval Islam

Author: John Joseph Saunders

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0415059143

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This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages, and will help the non-Orientalist to understand something of the relationship between Islam and Christendom in those centuries.

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.

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.

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.

Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant
Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant

Author: Alex Mallett

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-09-11

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9004280685

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In Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant seven leading scholars examine the historical writings of seven medieval Muslim historians whose works provide the core chronographical texts for reconstructing the events of the crusading period, 1097-1291. Each chapter examines the life of and influences on each historian, their overall writings, and their historical works related to the Crusades. Each historical text is examined for the current state of modern research, the sources and working method of the author, and its use and relevance for crusader studies and other fields of research. This volume will be of use to anyone studying the events of the Crusades, of Islamic History, or of Arabic Historiography in the medieval period. Contributors include: Frédéric Bauden, Niall Christie, Anne-Marie Eddé, Konrad Hirschler, Alex Mallett, and Françoise Micheau, Lutz Richter-Bernburg

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?

Times of History
Times of History

Author: Aziz Al-Azmeh

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2007-10-20

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 615521140X

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This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality, the uses of the past, historical periodisation, historical categorisation, and the constitution of historical objects, not least those called "civilisation" and "Islam". One of the aims of the book is to apply to Islamic materials the standard conceptual equipment used in historical study, and to exercise a large-scale comparativist outlook.

Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History

Author: Tayeb El-Hibri

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 0231150822

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Tayeb El-Hibri draws on medieval Islamic chronicles to remap the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy, offering an insightful critique of both early and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing various rulers. He also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions.

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.