New perspectives on Ibn ʻAsākir in Islamic historiography

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Judd, Steven C. (Editor), Scheiner, Jens J. 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands Brill 2017
Series:Islamic history and civilization volume 145
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Steven Judd and Jens Scheiner
  • Prologue: the publication of the Dar al-Fikr edition of Ibn ʻAsakir's Taʼrikh Madinat Dimashq / Nancy Khalek
  • Nostalgia for the future: a comparison between the introductions to Ibn ʻAsakir's Taʼrikh Madinat Dimashq and al-Khaṭib al-Baghdadi's Taʼrikh Baghdad / Zayde Antrim
  • Ibn ʻAsakir's children: monumental representations of Damascus until the 8th century / Dana Sajdi
  • Sunni jihad propaganda in seventh/thirteenth-century Damascus: an analysis of the colophons (samaḥat) on Ibn ʻAsakir's forty ḥadiths for inciting jihad / Suleiman A. Mourad and James E. Lindsay
  • Female presence in biographical dictionaries: Ibn ʻAsakir's selection
  • Criteria of women in his TMD / Monika Winet
  • Ibn ʻAsakir's peculiar biography of Khalid al-Qasri / Steven Judd
  • Ibn ʻAsakir's virtual library as reflected in his Taʼrikh Madinat Dimashq /Jens Scheiner