This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient
themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on
medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an
inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal
reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic
review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are
then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic
in the social and political history of the Middle East and North
Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a
cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the
struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life
of the peasantry. Each chapter pursues four questions. What
concrete research problems are likely to be most challenging and
productive? What resources do we possess for dealing with these
problems? What strategies can we devise to exploit our resources
most effectively? What is the current state of the scholarly
literature for the topic under study?
General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 1991 |
First published: |
September 1991 |
Authors: |
R. Stephen Humphreys
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
418 |
Edition: |
Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-00856-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
LSN: |
0-691-00856-6 |
Barcode: |
9780691008561 |
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