The historiography of Islamic Egypt, c.950-1800 /

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Other Authors: Kennedy, Hugh.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; 31.

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Call Number: DT95 .H57 2001

Table of Contents:
  • Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean : John Wansborough and the historiography of mediaeval Egypt / Michael Brett
  • Egypt and Aleppo in Ibn al-ʻAdīm's Bughyat al-ṭalab fī taʼrikh Ḥalab / David Morray
  • Al-Nuwayrī as a historian of the Mongols / Reuven Amitai
  • Baybars al-Manṣūrī's Zubdat al-fikra / Donald Richards
  • ʻAlī-al-Baghdādī and the joy of Mamluk sex / Robert Irwin
  • Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk historical writing / Nasser Rabbat
  • L'évolution de la composition du genre de Khiṭaṭ en Egypte musulmane / Ayman Fuʻad Sayyid
  • Al-Maqrīzī's account of the transition from Turkish to Circassian Mamluk sultanate : history in the service of faith / Amalia Levanoni
  • Al-Maqrīzī and Ibn Taghrī Birdī as historians of contemporary events / Irmeli Perho
  • Al-Biqāʼī̄'s Chronicle : a fifteenth century learned man's reflection on his time and world / Li Guo
  • Al-Maqrīzī, the master, and Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī, the disciple
  • whose historical writing can claim more topicality and modernity? / Ulrich Haarmann
  • Disruptive "others" as depicted in the chronicles of the late Mamlūk period / Carl F. Petry
  • Attitudes toward the Ottomans in Egyptian historiography during Ottoman rule / Michael Winter
  • The Egyptian-Yemeni symbiosis as reflected (or unreflected) in Ottoman-era chronicles / Jane Hathaway
  • Al-Jabartī's ʻAjāʼib al-athār fi al-tarājim waʼl-akhbār and the Arabic histories of Ottoman Egypt in the eighteenth century / Daniel Crecelius
  • The chronicles of Ottoman Egypt : history or entertainment / Nelly Hanna
  • Egyptian history in the modern Egyptian novel / Paul Starkey.