Islamic History A Framework for Inquiry - Revised Edition / R. Stephen Humphreys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humphreys, R. Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic history.

Islamic Empire--Bibliography.

Islamic Empire.

Islamic Empire--Historiography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

London : I. B. Tauris, 2009.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life of the peasantry. Each chapter pursues four questions. What concrete research problems are likely to be most challenging and productive? What resources do we possess for dealing with these problems? What strategies can we devise to exploit our resources most effectively? What is the current state of the scholarly literature for the topic under study?

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter One. REFERENCE WORKS

Chapter Two. THE SOURCES

Chapter Three. EARLY HISTORICAL TRADITION AND THE FIRST ISLAMIC POLITY

Chapter Four. MODERN HISTORIANS AND THE ABBASID REVOLUTION

Chapter Five BAYHAQĪ AND IBN TAGHRĪBIRDĪ

Chapter Six. IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA

Chapter Seven. THE FISCAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE MAMLUK EMPIRE

Chapter Eight. A CULTURAL ELITE

Chapter Nine. ISLAMIC LAW AND ISLAMIC SOCIETY

Chapter Ten. URBAN TOPOGRAPHY AND URBAN SOCIETY

Chapter Eleven. NON-MUSLIM PARTICIPANTS IN ISLAMIC SOCIETY

Chapter Twelve. THE VOICELESS CLASSES OF ISLAMIC SOCIETY

ABBREVIATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEX

INDEX OF TOPICS AND PROPER NAMES

Notes:

KH 10/10/2017c.

Originally published 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-394) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691214238

0691214239

OCLC:

1227051127