Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage
Subtitle: <i>al-Ḏahab al-masbūk fī ḏikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafāʾ wa-l-mulūk</i>. Critical Edition, Annotated Translation, and Study
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9789004332362
Subjects: Middle Eastern history
Description: In Caliphate and Kingship Jo Van Steenbergen presents a revisionist cultural biography, a critical edition and an annotated translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk, a summary history of the ḥağğ and Muslim rule by Egypt’s leading historian al-Maqrīzī (d. 1442 CE). Readership: All interested in the history of the ḥağğ, in Muslim intellectual history and political theory, in premodern Arabic literature, and in medieval and Mamluk political and socio-cultural history
Notes: Open Access Unrestricted online access

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