Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage : a critical edition, annotated translation, and study of al-D̲ahab al-Masbūk fī d̲ikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafā' wa-l-mulūk /

Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage : a critical edition, annotated translation, and study of al-D̲ahab al-Masbūk fī d̲ikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafā' wa-l-mulūk /

In Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo Van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk , a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrīzī...

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Main Author: Steenbergen, J. van.

Other Authors: Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn 'Alī, 1364-1442.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana 4.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.

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Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Saudi Arabia > Mecca > Early works to 1800.
Islamic Empire > Kings and rulers > Biography > Early works to 1800.

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Call Number: DS38.4.A2

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Table of Contents:
  • Study-the cultural biography of a fifteenth-century literary text: Contexts: introducing the hagg, al-Maqrizi, and al-Dahab al-masbuk (seventh - fifteenth centuries)
  • The hagg ritual: forms, function, and religious meanings
  • Pilgriming rulers and the hagg's political meanings in Islamic history
  • Cairo sultans, Meccan sharifs, and the late medieval hagg
  • Military commanders and religious scholars between late medieval Mecca and Cairo
  • Introducing a scholar between late medieval Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca
  • Contextualising al-Maqrizi's authorship
  • Contextualising al-Maqrizi's al-Dahab al-masbuk
  • Texts: al-Dahab al-masbuk between narratives, stories, and meanings
  • The hagg in Arabic writing and literature: between fiqh and tarih
  • Introducing al-Dahab al-masbuk: Prophet, caliphs, and kings between narratives and stories
  • The sources of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between habar and targamah
  • The meanings of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between author and ruler
  • Production, reproduction, and consumption: al-Dahab al-masbuk's life and times (fifteenth - twentieth centuries)
  • Producing al-Dahab al-masbuk (821-841/1418-1438)
  • Reproducing al-Dahab al-masbuk (sixteenth - twentieth centuries)
  • Consuming al-Dahab al-masbuk: from memory to history.