A Window to the Past?
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A Window to the Past?

Tracing Ibn Iy?s's Narrative Ways of Worldmaking

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Window to the Past?

Tracing Ibn Iy?s's Narrative Ways of Worldmaking

About this book

The only Arabic voice to have witnessed the Ottoman conquest of Cairo, Ibn Iy?s, is an eminent historical source for the late Mamluk period. This book is the first to take stock of the author's complete works, approaching him through an examination of his narrative voice and writing strategies. Tracing Ibn Iy?s's working process by compilation analysis, it shows how the author adapted his representations of Egyptian history to his writing projects and audience. Ibn Iy?s's ways of worldmaking are shaped deeply by beliefs, biases and intellectual trends as well as the impact of the social and historical context the author wrote in. Knowing these conditioning factors allows to understand his presentation of history as an individual voice of his time.

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Information

Publisher
V&R Unipress
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9783847114482
eBook ISBN
9783847014485
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
European Medieval History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Notes on Transliteration and Dates
  7. I Introduction
  8. II Stricken with Decline?
  9. III Ibn Iyās Through His Own Lenses
  10. IV Why and to Whom Does Ibn Iyās Write? Comparing Prefaces
  11. V Beyond Badāʾiʿ al-zuhūr
  12. VI A Litterateur at Work: First Contacts between Egypt and Muslim Domination
  13. VII Narrating Mamluk Transitions of Rule
  14. VIII The Ottoman Conquest Narrated
  15. IX Concluding Remarks and Research Prospects
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index of Names
  18. Index of Subjects