Islamic History : : A Framework for Inquiry - Revised Edition / / R. Stephen Humphreys.

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 I...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1992
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (418 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART ONE. SOURCES AND RESEARCH TOOLS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter One. REFERENCE WORKS
  • Chapter Two. THE SOURCES
  • PART TWO. PROBLEMS IN ISLAMIC HISTORY
  • Chapter Three. EARLY HISTORICAL TRADITION AND THE FIRST ISLAMIC POLITY
  • Chapter Four. MODERN HISTORIANS AND THE ABBASID REVOLUTION
  • Chapter Five BAYHAQĪ AND IBN TAGHRĪBIRDĪ
  • Chapter Six. IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA
  • Chapter Seven. THE FISCAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE MAMLUK EMPIRE
  • Chapter Eight. A CULTURAL ELITE
  • Chapter Nine. ISLAMIC LAW AND ISLAMIC SOCIETY
  • Chapter Ten. URBAN TOPOGRAPHY AND URBAN SOCIETY
  • Chapter Eleven. NON-MUSLIM PARTICIPANTS IN ISLAMIC SOCIETY
  • Chapter Twelve. THE VOICELESS CLASSES OF ISLAMIC SOCIETY
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEX
  • INDEX OF TOPICS AND PROPER NAMES