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02370cam a22002175i 4500 |
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230508s2023 mau 000 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9783110752243 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
NVIC |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gowaart Van Den Bossche |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: |
| Remainder of title |
Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Berlin; |
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Boston: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
De Gruyter, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
231 p., |
| Other physical details |
ill. |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Islam - Thought, Culture, and Society; |
| Volume/sequential designation |
Volume 10 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Chapter 1. The Sīra Corpus: Authors and Texts -- Chapter 2. The Discourse of Sīra: Historiography, Memory, and Performance -- Chapter 3. Sīra as an Act of Narrative Construction -- Chapter 4. Sīra as Chancery Practice: Composition and Compilation -- Chapter 5. Sīra as Literary Communication -- Chapter 6. Sīra as Courtly Phenomenon -- Chapter 7. Final Conclusions |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers. Sultanic biographies written by chancery officials in the early period of the sultanate have been read as part of an effort of these sultans to legitimise their position on the throne. This book reconsiders the main corpus of six such biographies written by the historians Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (d. 1293) and his nephew Shāfiʿ ibn ʿAlī (d. 1330) and argues that these were in fact far more complex texts. An understanding of their discourses of legitimisation needs to be embedded within a broader understanding of the multi-directional discourses operating across the texts. The study proposes to interpret these texts as "spectacles", in which authors emplotted the reign of a sultan in thoroughly literary and rhetorical fashion, making especially extensive use of textual forms prevalent in the chancery. In doing so the authors reimagined the format of the biography as a performative vehicle for displaying their literary credentials and helping them negotiate positions in the chancery and the wider courtly orbit." --Provided by publisher. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mamluk sultans |
| General subdivision |
Sira literature |
| Geographic subdivision |
Egypt |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Chancery |
| Chronological subdivision |
Mamluk Egypt |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Historiography |
| Chronological subdivision |
Mamluk Egypt |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social practice |
| Chronological subdivision |
Mamluk Egypt |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |