Medieval Arabic Historiography
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Recent papers in Medieval Arabic Historiography
(Book website: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1062267) For so long, scholarship in the West has argued that the memory of Saladin, the renowned, twelfth-century Kurdish-Muslim ruler, along with the memory of the Crusades, was “all... more
"""The āthār are our main source for the study of the first 150 years of Islam. They constitute a voluminous literature with layers of early and late traditions from different cities, tribes, and sects. Determining the date and provenance... more
A persistent myth featuring in some modern accounts of the transition from Fatimid to Ayyubid rule (1169–71) is that one of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn's (r. 1171–93) first actions upon attaining sovereignty over Egypt was to destroy the Fatimids’ book... more
В статье рассматривается сообщение о волшебной древнеегипетской статуе в средневековом арабском анониме «Ах̮ба̄р аз-зама̄н». Несмотря на фольклоризацию, в описании статуи без труда угадывается популярный в греко-римское время... more
БАЗА ДАННЫХ ТЕМ И СЮЖЕТОВ АРАБО-МУСУЛЬМАНСКИХ ДИНАСТИЙНЫХ ХРОНИК IX – X ВВ. АННОТАЦИЯ Настоящая База данных представляет собой... more
On orality and the written in Arabo-Islamic scholarship.
The paper deals with the topos of Amalecite rule in Egypt, its idea and historical correspondences. The Аrаb-Muslim scheme of Egypt's history fits surprisingly well the real history in case of the most important chronological points... more
Russian commented translation of some fragments of the so named "Crónica del Moro Rasis" ("Chronicle of the Moor Rasis"), a 15th century Castilian translation of the lost Arabic original of the 10th cen. Русский комментированный перевод... more
Fozia Bora, A Mamluk Historian’s Holograph: Messages from a Musawwada of Taʾrīkh Abstract: The holographic musawwada of the Mamluk historian Ibn al-Furāt’s (d. 1405) universal chronicle Taʾrīkh al-duwal wa ʾl-mulūk (covering 1107-1396)... more
In this paper I discuss the transmission of Mudawwana and the Memory of Saḥnūn b. Saʿīd, its compilor.
В статье исследуется преемственность одного из топосов арабской исторической литературы о Египте от произведений древнеегипетской литературы. Сюжет о царице Далуке и волшебнице Тадуре продолжает линию сюжетного взаимодействия образов... more
This article discusses accounts in medieval Arabic source material of the siege, capture and battle of Antioch during the First Crusade. It begins with an overview of how the reporting of the crusaders’ conquest of Antioch varied between... more
Ph.D. Thesis supervised by Dr. Thomas Asbridge (QMUL). Examined by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand and Prof. Andrew Jotischky, and passed subject to minor amendments on February 5th 2020. This PhD thesis presents a new interpretation of the... more
Medieval Iberia was one of the most important places of cultural interaction and transcultural encounters within the Mediterranean space, where an extensive translation movement from Arabic into Latin and from Arabic into the emerging... more