ISLAMIC HISTORIOGRAPHY

ROBINSON, CHASE F.

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ISBN:978-0-521-62936-2
EAN:9780521629362
Editorial: CAMBRIDGE U. P.
Fecha de la edición:2003
Colección: THEMES IN ISLAMIC HISTORY
Encuadernación:RUSTICA
Nº Pág.:238
Idiomas:INGLES

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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / ARTE E HISTORIA DEL ISLAM

How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in Chase F. Robinson's Islamic Historiography, an introduction to the principal genres, issues, and problems of Islamic historical writing in Arabic, and the first such study to stress the social and political functions of historical writing in the Islamic world. Beginning with the origins of the tradition in the eighth and ninth centuries and covering its development until the beginning of the sixteenth century, this is an authoritative and yet accessible guide through a complex and forbidding field, which it is intended for readers with little or no background in Islamic history or Arabic. .