Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography: Persian Histories from the Peripheries

ISBN-13: 9781107565838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 319 str.

Mimi Hanaoka

Opis

An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.

Recenzje

'… Hanaoka's book is a monumental piece of scholarship that will open important conversations among scholars of the medieval Islamic Persianate world. … Hanaoka's study of Persian local histories does much to further the scholarly debate on identities and mentalities within the medieval Perso-Islamic world and will provoke further discussion for the conceivable future on this topic. Her book should appear on every bibliography of medieval Islamic history or literature.' American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Methodologies for reading hybrid identities and imagined histories; 3. Contexts and authorship; 4. Dreaming of the prophet; 5. Holy bloodlines, prophetic utterances, and taxonomies of belonging; 6. Living virtues of the land; 7. Sacred bodies and sanctified cities; 8. Prophetic etymologies and sacred spaces; 9. The view from Anatolia; 10. Lessons from the peripheries.