Islamic history : a framework for inquiry

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書誌事項

Islamic history : a framework for inquiry

R. Stephen Humphreys

I.B. Tauris, 1991

Rev. ed

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注記

"The text of this book is substantially the same as that of the original edition published in 1988. However, that version went to press in 1985."--p. xiv

Bibliography: p. [311]-394

Includes indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This introductory text guides students through the literature and source material on social and political medieval Islamic history (600-1500AD). The book combines bibliographical material with an inquiry into method. It covers topics from dynastic power struggles to the daily life of the peasantry.

目次

  • Part 1 Sources and research tools: introduction
  • reference works - general, bibliographic tools, languages, geography and topography, chronology and genealogy, the scriptures of Islam - Qur'an and Hadith, research libraries and their catalogues
  • the sources - an analytical survey - narrative and literary texts, archives and documents, numismatics and metrology, epigraphy, art, archaeology and technology. Part 2 Problems in Islamic history: early historical tradition and the first Islamic polity - the character of early Islamic historiography, two cases from the early history of Islam
  • modern historians and the Addasid Revolution - the art of interpretation - developing an analytic framework, an outline of the sources, analyses and interpretations
  • Bayhaqi and Ibn Taghribirdi - the art of narrative in Islamic historical writing during the Middle Periods - the character of Islamic historical writing in the Middle Periods, two perspectives on Royal autocracy - Bayhaqi and Ibn Taghribirdi
  • ideology and propaganda - religion and state in the early Seljukid period
  • the fiscal administration of the Mamluk Empire
  • a cultural elite - the role and status of the "Ulama" in Islamic society
  • Islamic law and Islamic society
  • urban topography and urban society - Damascus under the Ayyubids and Mamluks - general perspectives on urban history in Islam, a case study - Damascus in the later Middle Ages
  • non-Muslim participants in Islamic society - the role and status of the "Dhimmi", autonomy and dependence in the Jewish communities of the Cairo Geniza, the problem of conversion
  • the voiceless classes of Islamic society - the peasantry and rural life - the physical setting, technology and the human impact, agriculture and the social order.

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