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Authority and identity in medieval Islamic historiography : Persian histories from the peripheries /

An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hanaoka, Mimi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Journal and Reference Works Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction ; Peripheries and Empires ; Reading Local Histories as Social History ; Sources.
  • Conceptual Frameworks Structure and Chapter Summaries ; 2 Methodologies for Reading Hybrid Identities and Imagined Histories ; Defining ''Local History'' ; Defining ''Iran'' and ''Persia'' ; Distinguishing Narrative Local Histories from Biographical Dictionaries.
  • Hybrid Identities and Gestures to ''Center'' the ''Peripheries'' Theoretical Considerations ; Remembering and Forgetting, Writing, and Rewriting ; Center-Periphery Relations ; Imagined Histories and their Uses ; The Real Contexts of Imagined Histories ; 3 Contexts and Authorship.
  • Historical Background Development of Perso-Islamic Historiography ; Contexts and Authorship ; Political and Military Turning Points in the Caspian Region ; Tārīkh-i Ṭabaristān and its Author, Ibn Isfandiyār; Political and Military Developments in Khurasan, Including Bukhara and Bayhaq
  • Tārīkh-i Bukhārā: Arabic Original by Narshakhī and Persian Translation by QubavīThe Region of Bayhaq ; The Question of 'Alids and Shi'a in Bayhaq; Tārīkh-i Bayhaq and its Author, Ibn Funduq; Political and Military Turning Points in Qum ; Tārīkh-i Qum: A Composite Text; Sistan in Context ; Tārīkh-Sīstān and its Anonymous Author; Local History and its Audience.