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Medieval Arabic historiography : authors as actors / Konrad Hirschler
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 5Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 181 pages) : illustrationsISBN:- 9780203965290
- 9786610552733
- 9781134175949
- 9781134175956
- 9781280552731
- 297.0722 22
- DS37.4
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Summary: Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular focus on two well-known texts: Abu Shama's The Book of the Two Gardens, and Ibn Wasil's The Dissipater of Anxieties. These texts describe events during the lifePPN: PPN: 1933263687Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON ROMANIZATION AND TERMINOLOGY; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 HISTORICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND; 3 SOCIAL CONTEXTS; 4 INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS; 5 TEXTUAL AGENCY I: Titles, final sections and historicization; 6 TEXTUAL AGENCY II: Micro-arrangement, motifs and political thought; 7 RECEPTION AFTER THE SEVENTH/THIRTEENTH CENTURY; 8 CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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