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History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate - Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature (Hardcover)
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History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate - Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World
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Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as
well as a legendary chess player. He was perhaps best known for his
work on poetry and chancery, which would have a long-lasting
influence on Arabic literature. His decades of service at the court
of at least three caliphs give him a unique perspective as an
historian of his own time, although he is often valued as an
observer rather than an interpreter of events for posterity.
Letizia Osti here provides the first full-length English-language
study devoted to al-Suli, illustrating how investigating the life,
times and works of such a complex individual can serve as a fil
rouge for tackling broader, contested concepts, such as biography,
autobiography, court culture, and written culture. The result is an
exploration of the ways in which the Abbasid court made sense of
the past and, in general, of what 'historiography' means in a
medieval Arabic context.
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