Author: Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311071289X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method, termed riwāya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify citation-markers that securely indicate the quotation of earlier Arabic historical works, proto-books first circulated in the eighth century. As a case study it reconstructs, with an edition and translation, around half of an annalistic history written by al-Layth b. Saʿd in the 740s. In doing so it shows that annalistic history-writing, comparable to contemporary Syriac or Greek models, was a part of the first development of Arabic historiography in the Marwanid period, providing a chronological framework for more ambitious later Abbasid history-writing. Reconstructing the original production-contexts and larger narrative frames of now-atomised quotations not only lets us judge their likely accuracy, but to consider the political and social relations underpinning the first production of authoritative historical knowledge in Islam. It also enables us to assess how Abbasid compilers combined and augmented the base texts from which they constructed their histories.
The First Arabic Annals
Author: Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311071289X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method, termed riwāya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify citation-markers that securely indicate the quotation of earlier Arabic historical works, proto-books first circulated in the eighth century. As a case study it reconstructs, with an edition and translation, around half of an annalistic history written by al-Layth b. Saʿd in the 740s. In doing so it shows that annalistic history-writing, comparable to contemporary Syriac or Greek models, was a part of the first development of Arabic historiography in the Marwanid period, providing a chronological framework for more ambitious later Abbasid history-writing. Reconstructing the original production-contexts and larger narrative frames of now-atomised quotations not only lets us judge their likely accuracy, but to consider the political and social relations underpinning the first production of authoritative historical knowledge in Islam. It also enables us to assess how Abbasid compilers combined and augmented the base texts from which they constructed their histories.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311071289X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method, termed riwāya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify citation-markers that securely indicate the quotation of earlier Arabic historical works, proto-books first circulated in the eighth century. As a case study it reconstructs, with an edition and translation, around half of an annalistic history written by al-Layth b. Saʿd in the 740s. In doing so it shows that annalistic history-writing, comparable to contemporary Syriac or Greek models, was a part of the first development of Arabic historiography in the Marwanid period, providing a chronological framework for more ambitious later Abbasid history-writing. Reconstructing the original production-contexts and larger narrative frames of now-atomised quotations not only lets us judge their likely accuracy, but to consider the political and social relations underpinning the first production of authoritative historical knowledge in Islam. It also enables us to assess how Abbasid compilers combined and augmented the base texts from which they constructed their histories.
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens
Author: al-Muẓaffar Ibn Naṣr Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
This English translation of al-Warraq’s tenth-century cookbook offers a unique glimpse into the culinary culture of medieval Islam. Hundreds of recipes, anecdotes, and poems, with an extensive Introduction, a Glossary, an Appendix, and color illustration. Informative and entertaining to scholars and general readers.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
This English translation of al-Warraq’s tenth-century cookbook offers a unique glimpse into the culinary culture of medieval Islam. Hundreds of recipes, anecdotes, and poems, with an extensive Introduction, a Glossary, an Appendix, and color illustration. Informative and entertaining to scholars and general readers.
Annals of the Early Caliphate. From Original Sources
Author: William Muir
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385357128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385357128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Irish Annals
Author: Daniel P. McCarthy
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Collectively the Irish annals represent a substantial and important source for the history and culture of Ireland. These texts provide the primary witness for much of early medieval Irish history, and for many key events and persons up until c.1600. Many of the most important of these texts passed into the possession of 17th-century Anglo-Irish scholars, and it was principally their work which formed the basis for all modern scholarship on them. However, examination of their work shows that a number of the accepted hypotheses rest upon assertions of opinion, and are unsupported by any textual evidence. This book first re-examines the manuscript evidence, commencing with an account of the primary manuscript witnesses for the ten most characteristic annalistic texts. It then reviews the scholarly literature relating to the annalistic corpus and identifies those hypotheses that are not supported by the available evidence. Next, based upon a critical evaluation of both the textual and chronological characteristics of the texts, the book establishes, where possible, the place, author(s), time and salient characteristics of the compilations that have contributed to the development of these ten texts. The penultimate chapter reviews the chronology of these texts and identifies the basis for a synchronised chronology for them all.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Collectively the Irish annals represent a substantial and important source for the history and culture of Ireland. These texts provide the primary witness for much of early medieval Irish history, and for many key events and persons up until c.1600. Many of the most important of these texts passed into the possession of 17th-century Anglo-Irish scholars, and it was principally their work which formed the basis for all modern scholarship on them. However, examination of their work shows that a number of the accepted hypotheses rest upon assertions of opinion, and are unsupported by any textual evidence. This book first re-examines the manuscript evidence, commencing with an account of the primary manuscript witnesses for the ten most characteristic annalistic texts. It then reviews the scholarly literature relating to the annalistic corpus and identifies those hypotheses that are not supported by the available evidence. Next, based upon a critical evaluation of both the textual and chronological characteristics of the texts, the book establishes, where possible, the place, author(s), time and salient characteristics of the compilations that have contributed to the development of these ten texts. The penultimate chapter reviews the chronology of these texts and identifies the basis for a synchronised chronology for them all.
A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines
Author: William Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
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Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM
Author: Day Otis Kellogg
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
“The” Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Day Otis Kellogg
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description