Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage
<i>al-Ḏahab al-masbūk fī ḏikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafāʾ wa-l-mulūk</i>. Critical Edition, Annotated Translation, and Study
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Van Steenbergen, Jo
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EnglishAbstract
In Caliphate and Kingship Jo Van Steenbergen presents a revisionist cultural biography, a critical edition and an annotated translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk, a summary history of the ḥağğ and Muslim rule by Egypt’s leading historian al-Maqrīzī (d. 1442 CE). Readership: All interested in the history of the ḥağğ, in Muslim intellectual history and political theory, in premodern Arabic literature, and in medieval and Mamluk political and socio-cultural history
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Middle Eastern historyPublisher
BrillPublisher website
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2016Imprint
BrillSeries
Bibliotheca Maqriziana,Classification
Middle Eastern history