Book/Printed Material Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage : al-D̲ahab al-Masbūk fī d̲ikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafāʼ wa-l-mulūk

Title

• Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage : al-D̲ahab al-Masbūk fī d̲ikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafāʼ wa-l-mulūk

Names

• Steenbergen, J. van, author.
• Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442.

Created / Published

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Contents

• Study-the cultural biography of a fifteenth-century literary text: Contexts: introducing the hagg, al-Maqrizi, and al-Dahab al-masbuk (seventh - fifteenth centuries) -- The hagg ritual: forms, function, and religious meanings -- Pilgriming rulers and the hagg's political meanings in Islamic history -- Cairo sultans, Meccan sharifs, and the late medieval hagg -- Military commanders and religious scholars between late medieval Mecca and Cairo -- Introducing a scholar between late medieval Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's authorship -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's al-Dahab al-masbuk -- Texts: al-Dahab al-masbuk between narratives, stories, and meanings -- The hagg in Arabic writing and literature: between fiqh and tarih -- Introducing al-Dahab al-masbuk: Prophet, caliphs, and kings between narratives and stories -- The sources of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between habar and targamah -- The meanings of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between author and ruler -- Production, reproduction, and consumption: al-Dahab al-masbuk's life and times (fifteenth - twentieth centuries) -- Producing al-Dahab al-masbuk (821-841/1418-1438) -- Reproducing al-Dahab al-masbuk (sixteenth - twentieth centuries) -- Consuming al-Dahab al-masbuk: from memory to history.

Headings

• -  Islamic Empire--Kings and rulers--Biography--Early works to 1800
• -  Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--Early works to 1800

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-440) and indexes.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (xiv, 497 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• DS38.4.A2

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019667898

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019667898

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

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• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019667898

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