Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Classical Historiography -- Chapter 1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman -- Chapter 2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate -- Chapter 3 Al-Maqrīzī and His al-Tārīkh al-kabīr al-muqaffāli-Miṣr Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work -- Chapter 4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmedi's Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts -- Part 2 Sacred History
Chapter 5 Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān's Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Ta ʼwīl): the Birth of Jesus -- Chapter 6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the Sīrat of Bandagī Miyān Shāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān -- Chapter 7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhu's Shengzan -- Part 3 Perspectives -- Chapter 8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo -- Chapter 9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean -- Index
