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1 online resource |
Series |
Bibliotheca Maqriziana Ser. ; v. 4 |
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Bibliotheca Maqriziana Ser
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Contents |
Study-the cultural biography of a fifteenth-century literary text: Contexts: introducing the hagg, al-Maqrizi, and al-Dahab al-masbuk (seventh -- fifteenth centuries) -- The hagg ritual: forms, function, and religious meanings -- Pilgriming rulers and the hagg's political meanings in Islamic history -- Cairo sultans, Meccan sharifs, and the late medieval hagg -- Military commanders and religious scholars between late medieval Mecca and Cairo -- Introducing a scholar between late medieval Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's authorship -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's al-Dahab al-masbuk -- Texts: al-Dahab al-masbuk between narratives, stories, and meanings -- The hagg in Arabic writing and literature: between fiqh and tarih -- Introducing al-Dahab al-masbuk: Prophet, caliphs, and kings between narratives and stories -- The sources of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between habar and targamah -- The meanings of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between author and ruler -- Production, reproduction, and consumption: al-Dahab al-masbuk's life and times (fifteenth -- twentieth centuries) -- Producing al-Dahab al-masbuk (821-841/1418-1438) -- Reproducing al-Dahab al-masbuk (sixteenth -- twentieth centuries) -- Consuming al-Dahab al-masbuk: from memory to history |
Summary |
In Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo Van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʼ wa-l-Mulūk , a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrīzī (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the ḥağğ , al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk is re-interpreted here as a complex literary construction that was endowed with different meanings. Through detailed contextualist, narratological, semiotic and codicological analyses Van Steenbergen demonstrates how these meanings were deeply embedded in early-fifteenth century Egyptian transformations, how they changed substantially over time, and how they included particular claims about authorship and about legitimate and good Muslim rule |
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Middle Eastern history |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
Subject |
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca -- Early works to 1800
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HISTORY -- World.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Kings and rulers
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Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Islamic Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
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Islamic Empire
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Saudi Arabia -- Mecca
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Early works
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442.
Dhahab al-masbūk fī dhikr man ḥajja min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-mulūk
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Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442.
Dhahab al-masbūk fī dhikr man ḥajja min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-mulūk. English
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LC no. |
2016040881 |
ISBN |
9789004332362 |
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9004332367 |
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