New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria : : Proceedings of the Themed Day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies / / edited by Jo van Steenbergen and Maya Termonia.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization Series ; Volume 179
• TeilnehmendeR: Steenbergen, J. van,; Termonia, Maya,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 179.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 507 pages); color illustrations

The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. It consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars in three parts. Each part represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry. Readership: All interested in medieval history and Islamic history, especially Mamluk studies, and anyone concerned with historiography and Arabic literature.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Figures and Tables -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction. History Writing, Adab, and Intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Old and New Readings (Van Steenbergen) -- ‎Part 1. Literarization as Adabization: Intertextual Agencies -- ‎Chapter 1. Al-Maqrīzī's Sulūk, Muqaffā, and Durar al-ʿUqūd: Trends of "Literarization" in the Historical Corpus of a 9th/15th-Century Egyptian Shāfiʿī Religious Scholar (Yosef) -- ‎Chapter 2. Language and Style in Mamluk Historiography (Yosef) -- ‎Chapter 3. Ibn al-Khaṭīb and His Mamluk Reception (de Castro León) -- ‎Chapter 4. Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba (1377-1448): His Life and Historical Work (Sabraa) -- ‎Chapter 5. Andalusi Adab in the Mamluk Period (Santás de Arcos) -- ‎Part 2. Literarization as Creative Authorship: Contextual Agencies -- ‎Chapter 6. Social and Intellectual Rivalries and Their Narrative Representations in Biographical Dictionaries: The Representation of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ-A Case Study (Gharaibeh) -- ‎Chapter 7. Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī's Texts and Contexts: Producing a Sufi Environment in the Cairo Sultanate (Mochtari de Pierrepont) -- ‎Chapter 8. If a Governor Falls in Damascus: Early Mamluk Historiography Analyzed through the Story of Sayf al-Dīn Karāy al-Manṣūrī (Bech Olsen) -- ‎Chapter 9. Al-ʿAynī and His Fellow Historians: Questioning the Discursive Position of a Historian in the Academic Field in the Cairo Sultanate (Onimus) -- ‎Part 3. Literarization as Social Practice: Textual Agencies -- ‎Chapter 10. Al-Biqāʿī's Self-Reflection: A Preliminary Study of the Autobiographical in His ʿUnwān al-Zamān (Goudie) -- ‎Chapter 11. "And They Read in That Night Books of History": Consuming, Discussing, and Producing Texts about the Past in al-Ghawrī's Majālis as Social Practices (Mauder).

‎Chapter 12. Historical Representation as Resurrection: Al-Udfuwī and the Imitation of Allāh (Metzger) -- ‎Chapter 13. Literarisierung Reconsidered in the Context of Sultanic Biography: The Case of Shāfiʿ b. ʿAlī's Sīrat al-Nāṣir Muḥammad (BnF MS Arabe 1705) (Van Den Bossche) -- ‎Index of Quranic References -- ‎Index of Geographical Names -- ‎Index of Pre-modern Books -- ‎Index of Topics and Terms -- ‎Index of Personal Names.