Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest
- 223 Seiten
- 8 Lesestunden
The history of northern Mesopotamia from the Islamic conquests until the early Abbasids, first published in 2000. číst celé
Chase F Robinson Bücher
Chase F Robinson ist ein angesehener Professor und Prorektor am Graduate Center der City University of New York, spezialisiert auf die frühe islamische Geschichte und Historiographie. Seine Arbeit befasst sich mit der Entstehung der islamischen Welt und untersucht ihre historische Entwicklung vom sechsten bis zum elften Jahrhundert. Robinsons Ansatz betont die Komplexität und Nuancen historischer Erzählungen und bietet den Lesern ein tieferes Verständnis einer entscheidenden Periode der islamischen Geschichte.
Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives
- 288 Seiten
- 11 Lesestunden
An accessible introduction to pre-modern Islam, showcasing the individuals - caliphs, law-makers, theologians, poets, mystics and scholars - who shaped the course of early Islamic history.
How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in societies that range from the Korean Peninsula to north-west Europe, which together highlight regional and cultural distinctiveness. Part II complements the first part by taking a thematic and comparative approach; it includes essays on genre, warfare, and religion (amongst others) which address common concerns of historians working in this liminal period before the globalizing forces of the early modern world.