Memorializing al-Maqqarī: The life, work, and worlds of a Muslim scholar
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Sabahat Fatima Adil
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
El Shamsy, Ahmed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of Chicago
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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270
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Donner, Fred; Fierro, Maribel; Nirenberg, David
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-07944-8
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Body granting the degree
The University of Chicago
Text preceding or following the note
2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This study is about the Muslim scholar Ahmad al-Maqqarī (d. 1041/1632), who is widely recognized in Western scholarship as the compiler of the eleventh-/seventeenth-century Arabic history of al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) and biography of the eighth-/fourteenth-century Andalusī polymath Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Khatīb (d. 776/1374), Nafh al-tīb min ghusn al-Andalus al-ratīb wa-dhikr wazīrihā Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Khatīb (The Fragrant breeze from the fertile branch of al-Andalus and the remembrance of its minister Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Khatīb). Although al-Maqqarī is credited as the intellectual force behind the work, his role as its author as well as that of an array of works, not to mention in Arabic scholarly production more broadly, have generally been neglected to date. This study offers scholars the opportunity to reconsider al-Maqqarī as more than simply the compiler of Nafh al-tīb , but also as a thinker, writer, teacher, and belle-lettrist whose life, travels, and experiences contributed to his thought and left a major imprint on his writings.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Middle Eastern literature; European history; Islamic Studies; 17th century; Historical text analysis; Teachers; Arabic language
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Muslim scholars;al-Andalus;al-Maqqari, Ahmad