TY - BOOK ID - 129298606 TI - New readings in Arabic historiography from late medieval Egypt and Syria : proceedings of the themed day of the fifth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies AU - Van Steenbergen, Jo AU - Termonia, Maya PY - 2021 SN - 9789004447028 PB - Leiden : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Mamelukes KW - Historiography KW - Egypt KW - Syria KW - History KW - Historiography KW - History KW - Historiography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129298606 AB - "New Readings in Arabic Historiography contributes to research on Arabic texts of history from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and "literarization," it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. This edited volume consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars. Each of the volume's three parts represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry. Contributors: Rasmus Bech Olsen, Víctor de Castro León, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Kenneth A. Goudie, Christian Mauder, Evan Metzger, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Clément Onimus, Tarek Sabraa, Iria Santás de Arcos, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Koby Yosef"-- ER -