TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jo Van Steenbergen
AU  - Maya Termonia
ED  - Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies
TI  - New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Proceedings of the Themed Day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
T2  - Islamic History and Civilization
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Mamluks
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - 1250-1517
KW  - Syria
KW  - 1260-1516
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "New Readings in Arabic Historiography contributes to research on Arabic texts of history from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and "literarization," it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. This edited volume consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars. Each of the volume's three parts represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry. Contributors: Rasmus Bech Olsen, Víctor de Castro León, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Kenneth A. Goudie, Christian Mauder, Evan Metzger, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Clément Onimus, Tarek Sabraa, Iria Santás de Arcos, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Koby Yosef"--
ER  -