Studies in Islamic historiography : : essays in honour of Professor Donald P. Little / / edited by Sami G. Massoud.

• Superior document: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 66
• TeilnehmendeR: Massoud, Sami G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

This book offers students and scholars an introduction to and insight into the wealth of historiographies produced in various Muslim milieus. Four articles deal with the classical period: archaeology and history in early Islamic Amman; an analysis of sources dealing with Muwaḥḥid North Africa; al-Maqrizī’s prosopographical production; the rise of early Ottoman historiography. Three examine sacred history as historiography: in 10th century Fatimid Egypt; in the 16th century Indian Chishtī Sufi milieu; and in the Sino-Muslim Confucian tradition in Qing China. The final two articles provide fresh approaches to historiography by respectively looking into the sijils of Ottoman Cairo as historical sources and by highlighting the regional approach to the writing of the history of the Indian Ocean. Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Heather J. Empey, Derryl MacLean, Sami G. Massoud, Murat Cem Mengüç, Reem Meshal, Hyondo Park, Patricia Risso, Shafique N. Virani and Michael Wood.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- / Sami G. Massoud -- part 1: Classical Historiography -- 1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman -- / Michael Wood -- 2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate -- / Heather J. Empey -- 3 al-Maqrīzī and His al-Tārīkh al-kabīr al-muqaffā li-Miṣr. Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work -- / Frédéric Bauden -- 4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmedi’s Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts -- / Murat Cem Mengüç -- part 2: Sacred History -- 5 Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān’s Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Ta‌ʾwīl): the Birth of Jesus -- / Shafique N. Virani -- 6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the Sīrat of Bandagī Miyān Shāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān -- / Derryl N. MacLean -- 7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhu’s Shengzan -- / Hyondo Park -- part 3: Perspectives -- 8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo -- / Reem Meshal -- 9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean -- / Patricia Risso -- Indices.