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History writing in Islamic Egypt was highly developed and no country in the Middle East has a richer or more developed tradition. This book is a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, examining different authors, their works and the intellectual climate in which they flourished. Due prominence is given to the great historians of the Mamluk period (c.1260-1517) but also to the less well-known writers of the Ottoman period. The essays are also enlivened by insights into personalities and customs of the time.
This book will be of interest to historians of the Islamic world in mediaeval and modern times, and to all those who are concerned with history writing as an intellectual discourse.
This book will be of interest to historians of the Islamic world in mediaeval and modern times, and to all those who are concerned with history writing as an intellectual discourse.
Price: $187.00
Pages: 270
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
14 December 2000
ISBN: 9789004117945
Format: Other
'...a major contribution in the field of Egyptian historiography, unique in its scope and showing innovative and inspiring scholarship.'
Jo Van Steenbergen, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2002.
Jo Van Steenbergen, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2002.
Hugh Kennedy is Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and has published extensively on the Islamic World in the Middle Ages, including The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (London, 1986) and Muslim Spain and Portugal: a political history of al-Andalus (London, 1996).