Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage

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).

About the author

Jo Van Steenbergen, Ph.D. (2003), is Professor of Islamic history at Ghent University. He has published extensively on late medieval Syro-Egyptian political, social and cultural history, including Order Out of Chaos. Patronage, Conflict and Mamluk Socio-Political Culture. 741-784/1341-1382 (Brill, 2006).

Product details

• Authors: Jo Steenbergen, Jo van Steenbergen
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9789004325685
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32568-5
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 861 g
• Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous