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Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage: Al-Ḏahab Al-Masbūk Fī ḏikr M

Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage: Al-Ḏahab Al-Masbūk Fī ḏikr M

Van Steenbergen, Jo

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004325689
ISBN13: 9789004325685
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 17 2016
Pages: 498
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: Arabic
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-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk, a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrīzī (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the ḥağğ, al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk 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.

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