Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage : al-D̲ahab al-masbūk fī d̲ikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafāʼ wa-l-mulūk / critical edition, annotated translation, and study by Jo Van Steenbergen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steenbergen, J. van, author.

Contributor:

Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

Series:

Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Selections (2014) Works. v. 4.

Bibliotheca Maqriziana ; volume 4

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Kings and rulers.

Islamic Empire--Kings and rulers--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Islamic Empire.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--Early works to 1800.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Saudi Arabia--Mecca.

Genre:

Biographies.

Early works.

Physical Description:

xiv, 497 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Language Note:

English and Arabic.

Summary:

In Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo Van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Dahab al-masbuk fi dikr man hagga min al-hulafa' wa-l-muluk, a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrizi (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the hagg, al-Dahab al-masbuk is re-interpreted here as a complex literary construction that was endowed with different meanings. Through detailed contextualist, narratological, semiotic and codicological analyses Van Steenbergen demonstrates how these meanings were deeply embedded in early fifteenth-century Egyptian transformations, how they changed substantially over time, and how they included particular claims about authorship and about legitimate and good Muslim rule. Book jacket.

Contents:

Study-the cultural biography of a fifteenth-century literary text: 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

Consuming al-Dahab al-masbuk: from memory to history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

Contains:

Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Dhahab al-masbūk fī dhikr man ḥajja min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-mulūk.

Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Dhahab al-masbūk fī dhikr man ḥajja min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-mulūk. English.

Other Format:

Online version: Steenbergen, J. van, author. Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage

ISBN:

9789004325685

9004325689

OCLC:

953708956

Publisher Number:

99970219859