Chase F. Robinson (University of Oxford)

Islamic Historiography

Herausgeber: Crone, Patricia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chase Robinson's book offers a well-composed and timely introduction to Islamic historiography from its origins in the seventh century to the fifteenth. The book covers the rise of the tradition, the historians' principal genres, assumptions and methods, and stresses the social and political functions of historical writing.

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Produktdetails

• Themes in Islamic History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780521629362
• ISBN-10: 0521629365
• Artikelnr.: 21963583

Autorenporträt

Chase F. Robinson is University Lecturer in Islamic History at the University of Oxford. His publications include Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
List of maps
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
Chronology I: the historians of the formative period
Chronology II: the historians of the classical period
Preface
Part I. Origins and Categories: 1. Origins
2. The emergence of genre
3. Consequences and models
4. Three categories: biography, prosopography, chronography
Part II. Contexts: 5. Historiography and traditionalism
6. Historiography and society
7. God and models of history
8. Historians and the truth
Part III. How Historians Worked: 9. Vocations and professions
10. Writing history
Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading
Bibliography
Index.