New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria

This edited volume consists of 13 contributions that engage with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. It participates in the revaluation of Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry.

About the author

Jo Van Steenbergen is Professor of Islamic history (UGent, Belgium). His many publications on late medieval Syro-Egyptian history include Caliphate and Kingship (Brill, 2016), Trajectories of State Formation (ed.) (Brill, 2020) and A New History of the Islamic World (Routledge, 2020).

Maya Termonia is Research Associate and Co-ordinator of the Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate-II and the Islamic History Open Data projects (UGent, Belgium). She is Language Instructor for Egyptian Arabic and Arabic Grammar and a specialist in TAFL methodologies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jo Steenbergen (Editor), Jo van Steenbergen (Editor), Maya Termonia (Editor)
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2021
• EAN: 9789004447028
• ISBN: 978-90-04-44702-8
• No. of pages: 522
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 898 g
• Series: Islamic History and Civilizati
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous