Mamluk historiography revisited : : narratological perspectives / / Stephan Conermann (editor).

• Superior document: Mamluk Studies ; Volume 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Conermann, Stephan,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V&R Unipress :, Bonn University Press,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Mamluk studies ; Volume 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages) :; illustrations

This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of ‘factuality’ versus ‘fictivity’. None of the authors set out to write ‘fiction’; nor would their audience have received their accounts as such. The events depicted were a matte...

Table of Contents

• On the Art of Writing History in Mamluk Times / Stephan Conermann
• Mamlūk Historiography Revisited: Narratological Perspectives in Damascene Chronicles / Yehoshua Frenkel
• Narrative Strategies in Biographical Dictionaries: The ad-Durar al-Kāmina of Ibn Ḥağar al-ʿAsqalānī
• a case study / Mohammad Gharaibeh
• Ibn Iyās, the Poet: The Literary Profile of a Mamluk Historian / Li Guo
• Lachrymose behavior in Mamluk Chronicles: A Narratological Technique / Amalia Levanoni
• The Topos of Predicting the Future in Early Mamluk Historiography / Amir Mazor
• Documents as Literary Texts: Mamluk Historiography Revisited / Linda Northrup
• Ibn Taghrībirdī's Stories / Irmeli Perho
• Gendered Nuances in Historiographical Discourses of the Mamluk Period: Muted Praise? Veiled Trivialization? Enigmatic Transgressions? / Carl Petry
• Ibn Zunbul on the Ottoman Conquest of Syria and Egypt / Boaz Shoshan
• Al-Maqrīzī's History of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian Narrative Construction: towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning / Jo Van Steenbergen
• The Changing Legacy of a Sufi Shaykh: Narrative Constructions in Diaries, Chronicles, and Biographies (15th-17th Centuries) / Torsten Wollina.