Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors by Konrad Hirschler
Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors by Konrad Hirschler
English | 13 Apr. 2006 | ISBN: 0415383773 | 192 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 13 Apr. 2006 | ISBN: 0415383773 | 192 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.