A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods

Includes index.

PART 1: The Study of the Ancient World -- 1. Assyriologie im Irak: Ein kurzer Überblick / Laith M. Hussein -- 2. Egyptian Egyptology, from Its Birth in the Late Nineteenth Century until the Early 2000s: The Founding Generations / Fayza Haikal and Amr Omar -- 3. Historiography of Pre-Islamic Arabia: Arab Scholars and Their Contributions to the Writing of the History of Ancient Yemen / Mohammed Maraqten -- 4. Contributions des chercheurs marocains dans l'enseignement de l'histoire ancienne / Sidi Mohammed Alaioud -- 5. Les sciences de l'antiquité en l'Algérie: bilan et perspectives / Youcef Aibeche -- 6. Receptions of Classical Antiquity in Egypt and the Arab World: Parallel/Narratives, Invisible Corpora and a Troubled Archive / Usama Gad -- PART 2: The Study of the Middle Ages -- 7. The Study of Byzantine History in Egypt (1945-2017) / Abdelaziz Ramadan -- 8. Hichem Djaït, maitre d'une école historique pour l'étude de l'Islam / Khaled Kchir -- 9. The Umayyads in Contemporary Arabic Historical Writing / Abdulhadi Alajmi -- 10. Historical Writing in Modern Iraq: Personalities and Trends / Nasir al-Kaabi -- 11. L'histoire sociale et économique médiévale de Al-Magrib et Al-Andalus chez les chercheurs arabes / Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich et Azeddine Guessous -- 12. Les travaux d'histoire médiévale dans les universités algériennes: bilan et tendances actuelles / Allaoua Amara -- 13. Mamluk Studies in the Arab World / Emad Abou-Ghazi -- 15. Modern Egyptian Arabic Scholarship on Mamluk Arts and Architecture (1250-1517) / Hani Hamza -- 16. Les études académiques arabes en histoire concernant « les relations Maghreb-Machreq» au Moyen Âge / Lotfi Ben Miled -- 17. Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on Medieval Europe: A Bibliographical Study / Al-Amin Abouseada

"A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. Contributors: Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan." --Provided by publisher.

Preface in English and Arabic; articles in English, German, and French.