The historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800) /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001. |
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| Description: | vi, 269 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval Mediterranean v. 31 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4368455 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean: John Wansborough and the Historiography of Mediaeval Egypt / Michael Brett
- 2. Egypt and Aleppo in Ibn al-'Adim's Bughyat al-talab fi ta'rikh Halab / David Morray
- 3. Al-Nuwayri as a Historian of the Mongols / Reuven Amitai
- 4. Baybars al-Mansuri's Zubdat al-Fikra / Donald Richards
- 5. 'Ali-al-Baghdadi and the Joy of Mamluk Sex / Robert Irwin
- 6. Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk Historical Writing / Nasser Rabbat
- 7. l'Evolution de la composition du genre de Khitat en Egypte musulmane / Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid
- 8. Al-Maqrizi's account of the Transition from Turkish to Circassian Mamluk Sultanate: History in the Service of Faith / Amalia Levanoni
- 9. Al-Maqrizi and Ibn Taghri Birdi as Historians of Contemporary Events / Irmeli Perho
- 10. Al-Biqa'i's Chronicle: a Fifteenth Century Learned Man's Reflection on his Time and World / Li Guo
- 11. Al-Maqrizi, the Master, and Abu Hamid al-Qudsi, the Disciple - Whose Historical Writing Can Claim More Topicality and Modernity? / Ulrich Haarmann
- 12. Disruptive "Others" as Depicted in the Chronicles of the Late Mamluk Period / Carl F. Petry
- 13. Attitudes toward the Ottomans in Egyptian Historiography during Ottoman rule / Michael Winter
- 14. The Egyptian-Yemeni Symbiosis as Reflected (or Unreflected) in Ottoman-era Chronicles / Jane Hathaway
- 15. Al-Jabarti's 'Aja'ib al-athar fi al-Tarajim wa'l-akhbar and the Arabic Histories of Ottoman Egypt in the Eighteenth Century / Daniel Crecelius
- 16. The Chronicles of Ottoman Egypt: History or Entertainment / Nelly Hanna
- 17. Egyptian History in the Modern Egyptian Novel / Paul Starkey.