New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria

Jo Van Steenbergen is Professor of Islamic history (UGent, Belgium). His many publications on late medieval Syro-Egyptian history include Caliphate and Kingship (Brill, 2016), Trajectories of State Formation (ed.) (Brill, 2020) and A New History of the Islamic World (Routledge, 2020).Maya Termonia is Research Associate and Co-ordinator of the Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate-II and the Islamic History Open Data projects (UGent, Belgium). She is Language Instructor for Egyptian Arabic and Arabic Grammar and a specialist in TAFL methodologies.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: History Writing, Adab and Intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Old and New ReadingsJo Van SteenbergenPart 1 Literarization as Adabization: Intertextual Agencies1 Al-Maqrīzī’s Sulūk, Muqaffā, and Durar al-ʿUqūd: Trends of “Literarization” in the Historical Corpus of a 9th/15th-Century Egyptian Shāfiʿī Religious ScholarKoby Yosef2 Language and Style in Mamluk HistoriographyKoby Yosef3 Ibn al-Khaṭīb and His Mamluk ReceptionVíctor De Castro León4 Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba (1377–1448): His Life and Historical WorkTarek Sabraa5 Andalusi Adab in the Mamluk PeriodIria SantasPart 2 Literarization as Creative Authorship: Contextual Agencies6 Social and Intellectual Rivalries and Their Narrative Representations in Biographical Dictionaries: The Representation of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ—A Case StudyMohammad Gharaibeh7 Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī’s Texts and Contexts: Producing a Sufi Environment in the Cairo SultanateZacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont8 If a Governor Falls in Damascus: Early Mamluk Historiography Analyzed through the Story of Sayf al-Dīn Karāy al-ManṣūrīRasmus Bech Olsen9 Al-ʿAynī and His Fellow Historians: Questioning the Discursive Position of a Historian in the Academic Field in the Cairo SultanateClément OnimusPart 3 Literarization as Social Practice: Textual Agencies10 Al-Biqāʿī’s Self-Reflection: A Preliminary Study of the Autobiographical in His ʿUnwān al-ZamānKenneth A. Goudie11 “And They Read in That Night Books of History”: Consuming, Discussing, and Producing Texts about the Past in al-Ghawrī’s Majālis as Social PracticesChristian Mauder12 Historical Representation as Resurrection: Al-Udfuwī and the Imitation of AllāhIvan Metzger13 Literarisierung Reconsidered in the Context of Sultanic Biography: The Case of Shāfiʿ b. ʿAlī’s Sīrat al-Nāṣir Muḥammad (BnF MS Arabe 1705)Gowaart Van Den BosscheIndex