Medieval Arabic Historiography : : authors as actors / / Konrad Hirschler.

• Superior document: SOAS/RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Middle East
• VerfasserIn: Hirschler, Konrad,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: SOAS/RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Middle East.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 181 pages) :; illustrations.

Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular focus on two well-known texts: Abu Shama's The Book of the Two Gardens, and Ibn Wasil's The Dissipater of Anxieties. These texts describe events during the life.

Table of Contents

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON ROMANIZATION AND TERMINOLOGY; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 HISTORICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND; 3 SOCIAL CONTEXTS; 4 INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS; 5 TEXTUAL AGENCY I: Titles, final sections and historicization; 6 TEXTUAL AGENCY II: Micro-arrangement, motifs and political thought; 7 RECEPTION AFTER THE SEVENTH/THIRTEENTH CENTURY; 8 CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.