Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage
[Book]
: al-Dahab al-Masbuk fi dikr man hagga min al-hulafa wa-l-muluk
/ critical edition, annotated translation, and study by Jo Van Steenbergen
Leiden; Boston
: Brill
, 2016
xiv, 497 pages
: illustrations, maps
; 25 cm.
Bibliotheca Maqriziana/ edited by Opera Minora, 2211-6737
; volume 4
انگليسي
عربي
Languages: English, Arabic
Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-440) and indexes
Contexts: introducing the hagg, al-Maqrizi, and al-Dahab al-masbuk (seventh - fifteenth centuries).- The hagg ritual: forms, function, and religious meanings.- Pilgriming rulers and the hagg's political meanings in Islamic history.- Cairo sultans, Meccan sharifs, and the late medieval hagg.- Military commanders and religious scholars between late medieval Mecca and Cairo.- Introducing a scholar between late medieval Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca.- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's authorship.- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's al-Dahab al-masbuk.- Texts: al-Dahab al-masbuk between narratives, stories, and meanings.- The hagg in Arabic writing and literature: between fiqh and tarih.- Introducing al-Dahab al-masbuk: Prophet, caliphs, and kings between narratives and stories.- The sources of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between habar and targamah.- The meanings of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between author and ruler.- Production, reproduction, and consumption: al-Dahab al-masbuk's life and times (fifteenth - twentieth centuries).- Producing al-Dahab al-masbuk (821-841/1418-1438).- Reproducing al-Dahab al-masbuk (sixteenth - twentieth centuries).- Consuming al-Dahab al-masbuk: from memory to history
Islamic Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca -- Early works to 1800