[PDF] Studies In Islamic Historiography eBook

Author : Chase F. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521629362

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How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in Chase F. Robinson's Islamic Historiography, an introduction to the principal genres, issues, and problems of Islamic historical writing in Arabic, that stresses the social and political functions of historical writing in the Islamic world. Beginning with the origins of the tradition in the eighth and ninth centuries and covering its development until the beginning of the sixteenth century, this is an authoritative and yet accessible guide through a complex and forbidding field, which is intended for readers with little or no background in Islamic history or Arabic.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521650236

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The history of the early Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri s book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.

Author : Shelomo Dov Goitein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004179313

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Goitein s selection of studies dealing with Islamic institutions and social history offers a general introduction to Islamic civilization by one who lived all his life with Islam. His fruit of specialized research gives a rounded view of important aspects of Islamic civilization and provides the student with an opportunity to acquaint himself not only with the results of research, but also with the methods by which they were obtained. With a new foreword by Norman A. Stillman

Author : Michael A. Cook
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004194355

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Bringing together the expansive scholarly expertise of former students of Professor Michael Allan Cook, this volume contains highly original articles in Islamic history, law, and thought. The contributions range from studies in the pre-Islamic calendar, to the "blood-money group" in Islamic law, to transformations in Arabic logic.

Author : Sami G. Massoud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004415297

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Studies in Islamic Historiography: Essays in Honour of Professor Donald P. Little examines historiographical production in a variety of milieus and traditions, from the classical to the early modern periods.

Author : Boaz Shoshan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047405099

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This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Ṭabarī's History. Four major events in the history of early Islam are then subject to analysis based on literary criticism and are shown to produce a new meaning.

Author : Andrew Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1134146906

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The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world.

Author : Tarif Khalidi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873952828

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The importance of Muslim historical writing in the medieval period and the fact that few detailed studies exist, make Professor Khalidi's book of special importance both to Arabists and to medievalists. It may be read both as a source for Muslim and non-Muslim history and for the light it sheds on Arabic/Islamic civilization in its prime.

Author : R. Stephen Humphreys
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0691214239

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This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life of the peasantry. Each chapter pursues four questions. What concrete research problems are likely to be most challenging and productive? What resources do we possess for dealing with these problems? What strategies can we devise to exploit our resources most effectively? What is the current state of the scholarly literature for the topic under study?

Author : Samee Ullah Bhat
Publisher : Educreation Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 2019-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN :

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The book originally a thesis which was submitted to the University of Kashmir for the award of Ph.D degree in Islamic studies in the year 2017 deals with one of the important component of Islamic Social Science namely Islamic historiography. It explores the concept of History in Islam, Qur’anic concept of History and the History-consciousness of the prominent Muslim Historians by highlighting their contributions to History writing. The prominent scholars discussed in this book are: Shibli Numani