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Author : Hugh N. Kennedy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004117946
This collection of essays discusses the rich and varied tradition of history writing in mediaeval and early modern Egypt, providing new insights into the works and the lives and outlooks of their authors.
Author : Walter J. Fischel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520335080
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Author : Petra A. Sijpesteijn,Lennart Sundelin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004138865
This collection includes editions of previously unpublished Greek, Coptic, and Arabic documents, historical and linguistic studies making use of documentary evidence and literary papyri, and an introduction to papyrology and its relevance for the study of early Islamic Egypt.
Author : Jo van Steenbergen,Maya Termonia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004458901
The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. It consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars in three parts. Each part represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry. Contributors: Rasmus Bech Olsen, Víctor de Castro León, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Kenneth A. Goudie, Christian Mauder, Evan Metzger, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Clément Onimus, Tarek Sabraa, Iria Santás de Arcos, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Koby Yosef.
Author : Stanley Lane-Poole
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A History of Egypt in the Middle Ages by Stanley Lane-Poole, first published in 1901, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Carl F. Petry,M. W. Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 0521471370
The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history through thirteen centuries, from the Arab conquest to the present day. The two-volume survey considers the political, socio-economic and cultural history of the world's oldest state, summarizing the debates and providing insight into current controversies. As today's Egypt reclaims a leading role in the Islamic, Arab and Afro-Asian worlds, the project stands as testimony to its complex and vibrant past. Volume 1 addresses the period from the Arab invasion in 640 to the Ottoman conquest in 1517. It opens with a discussion of the preceding centuries to illustrate the legacy of ancient Egypt, and then progresses chronologically according to the major dynastic episodes. Authors have been encouraged to address their topics in the light of new research. The combination of political history and contemporary theory will ensure its value as a reference and research tool.
Author : Hilary Kalmbach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108423472
A history of Egypt's first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.
Author : Maged S. A. Mikhail
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857725585
The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society. Seeking to uncover the broader cultural changes of the period by drawing on a wide array of literary and documentary sources, Maged Mikhail stresses the cultural and institutional developments that punctuated the histories of Christians and Muslims in the province under early Islamic rule. From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt traces how the largely agrarian Egyptian society responded to the influx of Arabic and Islam, the means by which the Coptic Church constructed its sectarian identity, the Islamisation of the administrative classes and how these factors converged to create a new medieval society. The result is a fascinating and essential study for scholars of Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt.
Author : Yossef Rapoport,Ido Shahar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503542778
Medieval Islamic society was overwhelmingly a society of peasants, and the achievements of Islamic civilization depended, first and foremost, on agricultural production. Yet the history of the medieval Islamic countryside has been neglected or marginalized. Basic questions such as the social and religious identities of village communities, or the relationship of the peasant to the state, are either ignored or discussed from a normative point of view. This volume addresses this lacuna in our understanding of medieval Islam by presenting a first-hand account of the Egyptian countryside. Dating from the middle of the thirteenth century, Abu 'Uthman al-Nabulusi's Villages of the Fayyum is as close as we get to the tax registers of any rural province. Not unlike the Domesday Book of medieval England, al-Nabulusi's work provides a wealth of detail for each village which far surpasses any other source for the rural economy of medieval Islam. It is a unique, comprehensive snap-shot of one rural society at one, significant, point in its history, and an insight into the way of life of the majority of the population in the medieval Islamic world. Richly annotated and with a detailed introduction, this volume offers the first academic edition of this work and the first translation into a European language. By opening up this key source to scholars, it will be an indispensable resource for historians of Egypt, of administration and rural life in the premodern world generally, and of the Middle East in particular.
Author : Yoav Di-Capua
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520944817
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.
Author : Anthony Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135145330
This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the academic historian, the university system, the state and non-academic scholarship and the tension between them in contesting the modern history of Egypt. In a detailed discussion of the literature, the study analyzes the political nature of competing interpretations and uses the examples of Copts and resident foreigners to demonstrate the dissonant challenges to the national discourse that testify to its limitations, deficiencies and silences.
Author : Chase F. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Jack A. Crabbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011603381
This is a detailed and well-documented study of the Westernization of Egypt (1798-1922)from the Napoleonic invasion to independence from Britain. It begins with a discussion of the nature of history itself, and of how Middle Eastern and Western forms of historical writing have differed across the centuries. Issues which are dealt with include traditional vs. modern historiography, Western vs. Islamic, biased vs. interpretive writing, and nationalistic fervor vs. objectivity in history. Having set the scene, the author moves on to the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. He draws heavily on native Egyptian source materials, immersing the reader in the thoughts and concerns of modern-day Egyptians and Arabs. The narrative moves swiftly, and one puts down the book with the distinct feeling that he has been eye-witness to a national saga of rapid change. The focus of the book is the Egyptian historians (all of them "amateurs") of the period and their writings. Taking each writer as a multifaceted personality rather than merely as a historian, the author breathes vitality into his work, which contains a wealth of fascinating detail on all aspects of Egyptian society. Each historian emerges as spokesman for a whole generation of Egyptian intellectuals. More than a study in historiography, the book ranges from politics to literature, from irrigation projects to furniture styles. It transports the reader into another time-frame and another cultural context. The author's fondness and sympathy for his subject become contagious. In sum, the author approaches historiography as a vehicle for getting at cultural and intellectual change.
Author : Israel Gershoni,James P. Jankowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195364866
Throughout the 20th century, Egyptian nationalism has alternately revolved around three primary axes: a local Egyptian territorial nationalism, a sense of Arab ethnic-linguistic nationalism, and an identification with the wider Muslim community. This detailed study is devoted to the first major phase in the perennial debate over nationalism in modern Egypt--the territorial nationalism dominant in Egypt in the early 20th century. The first section of the book examines the effects of World War I and its aftermath, which temporarily gave rise to an exclusively Egyptianist national orientation in Egypt. Subsequent sections consider the intellectual and political dimensions of Egyptian interwar years. Egypt, Islam and the Arabs is the first volume in a new Oxford series, Studies in Middle Eastern History. The General Editors of the series are Bernard Lewis of Princeton University, Itamar Rabinovich of Tel Aviv University, and Roger M. Savory of the University of Toronto.
Author : Okasha El Daly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315429762
Egyptology: The Missing Millennium brings together for the first time the disciplines of Egyptology and Islamic Studies, seeking to overturn the conventional opinion of Western scholars that Moslims/Arabs had no interest in pre-Islamic cultures. This book examines a neglected period of a thousand years in the history of Egyptology, from the Moslem annexation of Egypt in the seventh century CE until the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century. Concentrating on Moslem writers, as it is usually Islam which incurs blame for cutting Egyptians off from their ancient heritage, the author shows not only the existence of a large body of Arabic sources on Ancient Egypt, but also their usefulness to Egyptology today. Using sources as diverse as the accounts of travelers and treasure hunters to books on alchemy, the author shows that the interest in ancient Egyptian scripts continued beyond classical writers, and describes attempts by medieval Arab scholars, mainly alchemists, to decipher the hieroglyph script. He further explores medieval Arab interest in Ancient Egypt, discussing the interpretations of the intact temples, as well as the Arab concept of Egyptian kingship and state administration—including a case study of Queen Cleopatra that shows how the Arabic romance of this queen differs significantly from Western views. This book will be of great interest to academics and students of archaeology, Islamic studies and Egyptology, as well as anyone with a general interest in Egyptian history.