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Medieval Arabic Historiography - Authors as Actors (Hardcover)
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Medieval Arabic Historiography - Authors as Actors (Hardcover)
Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
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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. These texts describe events during the life of the
sultans Nur-al-Din and Salah al-Din, who are primarily known in
modern times as the champions of the anti-Crusade movement.
Hirschler shows that these two authors were active interpreters of
their society and has considerable room for manoeuvre in both their
social environment and the shaping of their texts. Through the use
of a fresh and original theoretical approach to pre-modern Arabic
historiography, Hirschler presents a new understanding of these
texts which have before been relatively neglected, thus providing a
significant contribution to the burgeoning field of
historiographical studies.
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