New Perspectives on Ibn ʿasākir in Islamic Historiography

Approx 290 Pp., 3 Illus. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34519-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 145, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

This volume contains six articles on Ibn 'Asakir and his Ta'rikh madinat Dimashq illustrating a variety of perspectives and approaches to the material. It includes a seventh article that discusses the process by which the now standard Dar al-fikr edition was compiled. The contributions address both the geographical and biographical sections of the Ta'rikh madinat Dimashq. Some of the authors examine Ibn 'Asakir’s sources, while others describe how Ibn 'Asakir’s works were used by later generations of scholars and how he influenced multiple genres of later writings. The volume also contains analyses of individual biographies and discussions of Ibn 'Asakir’s treatment of larger classes of people, including the first analysis of his biographies of women. In sum, it illustrates both the wide range of topics that the Ta'rikh madinat Dimashq covers and the latest techniques for analyzing Ibn 'Asakir and his work.

Contributors: Zayde Antrim, Steven Judd, Nancy Khalek, James Lindsay, Suleiman Mourad, Dana Sajdi, Jens Scheiner, Monika Winet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Judd, Steven

Scheiner, Jens

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Judd, Ph.D. (1997) University of Michigan, is Professor of Middle East History at Southern Connecticut State University. He has published a monograph and several articles on the Umayyad period, including Religious Scholars and the Umayyads (2013).

Jens Scheiner, Ph.D. (2009) Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen. He has published a monograph on the conquest of Damascus (2010) and edited a volume on the contexts of learning in Baghdad (2014).