Islamic history : a framework for inquiry /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Humphreys, R. Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.
Edición:Rev. ed.
Temas:
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Historiography
Islamitische wereld.
Geschiedschrijving.
Islamic Empire > Bibliography.
Islamic Empire > Historiography.
Empire islamique > Bibliographie.
Empire islamique > Historiographie.
Islamic Empire
bibliographies.
Bibliographies
Bibliographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Part One. Sources and research tools : Introduction
  • Chapter one. Reference books
  • Chapter two. The sources : An analytical survey
  • Part Two. Problems in Islamic history : Chapter three. Early historical tradition and the first Islamic polity : A. The character of early Islamic historiography
  • B. Two cases from the early history of Islam
  • Chapter four. Modern historians and the Abbasid Revolution : The art of interpretation : A. Developing an analytic framework
  • B. An outline of the sources
  • C. Analyses and interpreations
  • Chapter five. Bayhaqī and Ibn Taghrībirdī : The art of narrative in Islamic historical writing during the middle periods : A. The character of Islamic historical writing in the middle periods
  • B. Two perspectives on royal autocracy : Bayhaqī and Ibn Taghrībirdī
  • Chapter six. Ideology and propaganda : Religion and state in the early Seljukid period
  • Chapter seven. The fiscal administration of the Mamluk empire
  • Chapter eight. A cultural elite : The role and status of the 'Ulamā' in Islamic society
  • Chapter nine. Islamic law and Islamic society
  • Chapter ten. Urban topography and urban society : Damascus under the Ayyubids and Mamluks : A. General perspectives on urban history in Islam
  • B.A case study : Damascus in the later Middle Ages
  • Chapter eleven. Non-Muslim participants in Islamic society : A. The role and status of the Dhimmī
  • B. Autonomy and dependence in the Jewish communities of the Cairo geniza
  • C. The problem of conversion
  • Chapter twelve. The voiceless classes of Islamic society : The peasantry and rural life : A. The physical setting
  • B. Technology and the human impact
  • C. Agriculture and the social order.

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