Islamic history : a framework for inquiry /

Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic...

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Main Author: Humphreys, R. Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.
Edition:Rev. ed.
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260 |a Princeton, N.J. :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c c1991. 
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505 0 |a Preface -- Part One. Sources and research tools : Introduction -- Chapter one. Reference books -- Chapter two. The sources : An analytical survey -- Part Two. Problems in Islamic history : Chapter three. Early historical tradition and the first Islamic polity : A. The character of early Islamic historiography -- B. Two cases from the early history of Islam -- Chapter four. Modern historians and the Abbasid Revolution : The art of interpretation : A. Developing an analytic framework -- B. An outline of the sources -- C. Analyses and interpreations -- Chapter five. Bayhaqī and Ibn Taghrībirdī : The art of narrative in Islamic historical writing during the middle periods : A. The character of Islamic historical writing in the middle periods -- B. Two perspectives on royal autocracy : Bayhaqī and Ibn Taghrībirdī -- Chapter six. Ideology and propaganda : Religion and state in the early Seljukid period -- Chapter seven. The fiscal administration of the Mamluk empire -- Chapter eight. A cultural elite : The role and status of the 'Ulamā' in Islamic society -- Chapter nine. Islamic law and Islamic society -- Chapter ten. Urban topography and urban society : Damascus under the Ayyubids and Mamluks : A. General perspectives on urban history in Islam -- B.A case study : Damascus in the later Middle Ages -- Chapter eleven. Non-Muslim participants in Islamic society : A. The role and status of the Dhimmī -- B. Autonomy and dependence in the Jewish communities of the Cairo geniza -- C. The problem of conversion -- Chapter twelve. The voiceless classes of Islamic society : The peasantry and rural life : A. The physical setting -- B. Technology and the human impact -- C. Agriculture and the social order. 
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