Literary Spectacles of Sultanship : : Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt / / Gowaart Van Den Bossche.
The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers. Sultanic biographies written by chancery officials in the early period of the sultanate ha...
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Van Den Bossche, Gowaart, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Literary Spectacles of Sultanship : Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt / Gowaart Van Den Bossche. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (IX, 231 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society , 2628-4286 ; 10 Dissertation Ghent University 2019. Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on transliteration and abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The sīra corpus: Authors and texts -- Chapter 2 The discourse of Sīra: Historiography, memory, and performance -- Chapter 3 Sīra as an act of narrative construction -- Chapter 4 Sīra as chancery practice: Composition and compilation -- Chapter 5 Sīra as literary communication -- Chapter 6 Sīra as courtly phenomenon -- Chapter 7 Final conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers. Sultanic biographies written by chancery officials in the early period of the sultanate have been read as part of an effort of these sultans to legitimise their position on the throne. This book reconsiders the main corpus of six such biographies written by the historians Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (d. 1293) and his nephew Shāfiʿ ibn ʿAlī (d. 1330) and argues that these were in fact far more complex texts. An understanding of their discourses of legitimisation needs to be embedded within a broader understanding of the multi-directional discourses operating across the texts. The study proposes to interpret these texts as "spectacles", in which authors emplotted the reign of a sultan in thoroughly literary and rhetorical fashion, making especially extensive use of textual forms prevalent in the chancery. In doing so the authors reimagined the format of the biography as a performative vehicle for displaying their literary credentials and helping them negotiate positions in the chancery and the wider courtly orbit. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Islam (7. Jh.). Kairo. Muḥyī al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir. Shāfiʿ b. ʿAlī. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies. bisacsh Historiography. Islamic history. Mamluk. sultanate. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 9783111175782 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2023 English 9783111319285 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2023 9783111318820 ZDB-23-DGF EPUB 9783110753134 print 9783110752243 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753028 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110753028 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110753028/original |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on transliteration and abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The sīra corpus: Authors and texts -- Chapter 2 The discourse of Sīra: Historiography, memory, and performance -- Chapter 3 Sīra as an act of narrative construction -- Chapter 4 Sīra as chancery practice: Composition and compilation -- Chapter 5 Sīra as literary communication -- Chapter 6 Sīra as courtly phenomenon -- Chapter 7 Final conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index |
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