Medieval Arabic Historiography

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 extraor...

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Main Author: Hirschler, Konrad (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Taylor & Francis 2006
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