| Series |
The Medieval Mediterranean, v. 31
Medieval Mediterranean v. 31. ^A691291
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| 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 taʾrikh 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-Biqāʾī'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 ʻAjāʾib al-athār fi al-tarājim waʾl-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. |
| General note | "The papers collected in this volume were given at a conference on 'The Historiography of Islamic Egypt' held in the University of St. Andrews, 28-31 August, 1997"--P. [vii]. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00051931 |
| ISBN | 9004117946 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9789004117945 (cloth : alk. paper) |
