Writing history in the medieval Islamic world : the value of chronicles as archives /: the value of chronicles as archives. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fozia Bora.
• Authors: Bora, Fozia, 1972-
• Contents: AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsNote on Terminology, Transliteration and Dates Introduction1 The Archival Function of Historiography2 An exemplary chronicle as archive: Ibn al-Fura¯t's Ta'rikh al-duwal wa 'l-muluk3 Fatimid Archivalia: Narratives and Documents in Late Fatimid Egypt4 Mamluk Archivalities: Late Fatimid History in Ibn al-Furat's Chronicle5 A Micro-Historical Analysis of Ibn al-Furat's Archive (Part 1): Two Fatimid Vizierates6 A Micro-Historical Analysis of Ibn al-Furat's Archive (Part 2): Fatimid Caliphs and Viziers to the Rise of ?ala? al-Din7 Concluding Remarks: The Value of Chronicles as ArchivesAppendicesBibliography.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 962.02; Fatimites -- History -- Sources; Mamelukes -- History; Egypt -- History -- 640-1250 -- Historiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786726056; 9781786736116
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