The First Arabic Annals : : Fragments of Umayyad History / / Edward Zychowicz-Coghill.
The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method, termed riwāya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify citation-markers that securely indicate the "ation...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East ,
41 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 127 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction: An Arabic History from 8th-Century Egypt
- 1 Using isnāds to Identify Quotations of Books
- 2 Repeated riwāya-isnāds to al-Layth’s –Taʾrīkh Presenting Common Information
- 3 Five Independent Witnesses to Ibn Bukayr’s Recension of al-Layth’s -Taʾrīkh
- 4 Al-Layth’s –Taʾrīkh or Ibn Bukayr’s?
- 5 The Scope and Content of al-Layth’s –Taʾrīkh
- 6 Al-Layth and Ibn Bukayr
- Conclusions
- Edition and Translation
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Places