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Author : Sami G. Massoud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004415294
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.
Author : Goitein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004662353
Author : Shelomo Dov Goitein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004179318
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
Author : Chase F. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521629365
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.
Author : Boaz Shoshan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047405092
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.
Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521650232
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.
Author : Tarif Khalidi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0873952820
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.
Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139426214
Author : Heather N. Keaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134081066
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.
Author : Firas Alkhateeb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781849049771
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions while offering the reader a new narrative of this lost Islamic history. The Umayyads, Abbasids, and Ottomans feature in the story, as do Muslim Spain, the savannah kingdoms of West Africa and the Mughal Empire, along with the later European colonization of Muslim lands and the development of modern nation-states in the Muslim world. Throughout, the impact of Islamic belief on scientific advancement, social structures, and cultural development is given due prominence, and the text is complemented by portraits of key personalities, inventions and little known historical nuggets. The history of Islam and of the world's Muslims brings together diverse peoples, geographies and states, all interwoven into one narrative that begins with Muhammad and continues to this day.
Author : R. Stephen Humphreys
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691214238
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?
Author : Martin Hinds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN : 3959940963
Collection of all of Martin Hinds' (1941-1988) full-length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition. Most of the articles have to do with the early period of Islamic history, while two others deal with the early ʿAbbāsid caliphate. The volume is especially important in light of the fact that all of the articles were revised by the editors based on Hinds' own corrected copies: 1. Kūfan Political Alignments and Their Background in the Mid-Seventh Century A.D 2. The Murder of the Caliph 'Uthmān 3. The Ṣiffīn Arbitration Agreement 4 . The Banners and Battle Cries of the Arabs at Ṣiffīn (A.D. 657) 5. Sayf ibn 'Umar's Sources on Arabia 6. A Letter from the Governor of Egypt Concerning Egyptian-Nubian Relations in 141/758 7. Maghāzī and Sīra in Early Islamic Scholarship 8. The First Arab Conquests in Fārs 9. Miḥna "Hinds' articles are essential reading for any specialist in early Islamic history" (Michael Bates)
Author : Andrew Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134146901
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.
Author : Samee Ullah Bhat
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The book originally a thesis which was submitted to the University of Kashmir for the award of Ph.D degree in Islamic studies in the year 2017 deals with one of the important component of Islamic Social Science namely Islamic historiography. It explores the concept of History in Islam, Qur’anic concept of History and the History-consciousness of the prominent Muslim Historians by highlighting their contributions to History writing. The prominent scholars discussed in this book are: Shibli Numani
Author : Ryan J. Lynch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838604400
Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, few are of greater importance than al-Baladhuri's Kitab Futuh al-buldan (The Book of the Conquest of Lands). Written in Arabic by a ninth-century Muslim scholar working at the court of the 'Abbasid caliphs, the Futuh's content covers many important matters at the beginning of Islamic history. It informs its audience of the major events of the early Islamic conquests, the settlement of Muslims in the conquered territories and their experiences therein, and the origins and development of the early Islamic state. Questions over the text's construction, purpose, and reception, however, have largely been ignored in current scholarship. This is despite both the text's important historical material and its crucial early date of creation. It has become commonplace for researchers to turn to the Futuh for information on a specific location or topic, but to ignore the grander – and, in many ways, more straightforward – questions over the text's creation and limitations. This book looks to correct these gaps in knowledge by investigating the context, form, construction, content, and early reception history of al-Baladhuri's text.