Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography, Volume 2 (Islamic History and Civilization #21)

Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography, Volume 2 (Islamic History and Civilization #21)

Guo
$173.00
Publication Date: January 1st, 1998
Publisher:
Brill
ISBN:
9789004110298
Pages:
360

Description

This laudable work offers a study, translation and partial edition of one of the most important early Mamluk sources and its author. In addition to the work's contribution to Mamluk history, it also makes a significant contribution towards the ultimate goal of having the key texts of early Mamluk historiography accessible to scholars.
Volume II is an edition of the years 1297-1302 (697-701 AH) of al-Yūnīnī's Chronicle, collated with the extant fragments of al-Jazarī's (d. 1338) ḥawādith al-zamān.

About the Author

Li Guo, Ph.D. (1994), Yale University, is Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago. He was educated in China, Yemen, Egypt and the USA and has published on Mamluk historiography, Arabic literature and language pedagogy.

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