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oapen-20.500.12657-497612021-07-06T13:54:01Z New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria van Steenbergen, Jo Termonia, Maya Middle Eastern history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history::HBJF1 Middle Eastern history 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. 2021-07-06T13:01:51Z 2021-07-06T13:01:51Z 2021 book ONIX_20210706_9789004447028_13 9789004447028 9789004458901 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49761 eng Islamic History and Civilization application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789004458901.pdf https://brill.com/abstract/title/59478 Brill 10.1163/9789004458901 10.1163/9789004458901 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 9789004447028 9789004458901 179 522 open access
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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.
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