The Historiography of Islamic Egypt: (c. 950 - 1800)History writing in Islamic Egypt was highly developed and no country in the Middle East has a richer or more developed tradition. This book is a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, examining different authors, their works and the intellectual climate in which they flourished. Due prominence is given to the great historians of the Mamluk period (c.1260-1517) but also to the less well-known writers of the Ottoman period. The essays are also enlivened by insights into personalities and customs of the time. This book will be of interest to historians of the Islamic world in mediaeval and modern times, and to all those who are concerned with history writing as an intellectual discourse. |
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Contents
AlMaqrīzī and Ibn Taghrī Birdī as Historians | 9 |
Egypt and Aleppo in Ibn alAdīms Bughyat altalab | 13 |
The Bahri Mamluk period 12501390 | 23 |
Baybars alManşūrīs Zubdat alFikra | 37 |
Alī alBaghdādī and the Joy of Mamluk Sex | 45 |
Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk Historical | 59 |
AlMaqrīzī d 1442 and His World | 77 |
Contemporary Events | 107 |
AlMaqrīzī the Master and Abū Hāmid alQudsī | 149 |
Disruptive Others as Depicted in | 167 |
The Historiography of Ottoman Egypt 15171798 | 195 |
The EgyptianYemeni Symbiosis as Reflected | 211 |
AlJabartīs Ajāib alathār fi alTarājim walakhbār and | 221 |
History | 237 |
Postscript | 251 |
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| Title | The Historiography of Islamic Egypt: (c. 950 - 1800) Volume 31 of Sinica Leidensia Volume 31 of The medieval Mediterranean. Peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1453 Volume 31 of “The” medieval Mediterranean / “The” medieval Mediterranean |
| Editor | Hugh N. Kennedy |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2001 |
| ISBN | 9004117946, 9789004117945 |
| Length | 269 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Interior Design / General History / Medieval History / Middle East / Egypt Religion / Islam / General |
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