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Authority and identity in medieval Islamic historiography, Persian histories from the peripheries, Mimi Hanaoka

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Authority and identity in medieval Islamic historiography, Persian histories from the peripheries, Mimi Hanaoka

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eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Authority and identity in medieval Islamic historiography

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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956508760

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Mimi Hanaoka

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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

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Persian histories from the peripheries

Summary

Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what can these more literary histories tell us about the people who wrote them and the times in which they lived? In this book, Mimi Hanaoka offers an innovative, interdisciplinary method of approaching these sorts of local histories from the Persianate world. By paying attention to the purpose and intention behind a text's creation, her book highlights the preoccupation with authority to rule and legitimacy within disparate regional, provincial, ethnic, sectarian, ideological and professional communities. By reading these texts in such a way, Hanaoka transforms the literary patterns of these fantastic histories into rich sources of information about identity, rhetoric, authority, legitimacy, and centre-periphery relations.--, Provided by publisher

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Authority & Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography

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