Title Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage : a critical edition, annotated translation, and study of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī ḏikr man ḥaǧǧa min al-ḫulafāʼ wa-l-mulūk / by Jo Van Steenbergen

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Series Bibliotheca Maqriziana Ser. ; v. 4 Bibliotheca Maqriziana Ser Contents Study-the cultural biography of a fifteenth-century literary text: Contexts: introducing the hagg, al-Maqrizi, and al-Dahab al-masbuk (seventh -- fifteenth centuries) -- The hagg ritual: forms, function, and religious meanings -- Pilgriming rulers and the hagg's political meanings in Islamic history -- Cairo sultans, Meccan sharifs, and the late medieval hagg -- Military commanders and religious scholars between late medieval Mecca and Cairo -- Introducing a scholar between late medieval Cairo, Damascus, and Mecca -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's authorship -- Contextualising al-Maqrizi's al-Dahab al-masbuk -- Texts: al-Dahab al-masbuk between narratives, stories, and meanings -- The hagg in Arabic writing and literature: between fiqh and tarih -- Introducing al-Dahab al-masbuk: Prophet, caliphs, and kings between narratives and stories -- The sources of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between habar and targamah -- The meanings of al-Dahab al-masbuk: between author and ruler -- Production, reproduction, and consumption: al-Dahab al-masbuk's life and times (fifteenth -- twentieth centuries) -- Producing al-Dahab al-masbuk (821-841/1418-1438) -- Reproducing al-Dahab al-masbuk (sixteenth -- twentieth centuries) -- Consuming al-Dahab al-masbuk: from memory to history Summary In Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo Van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʼ wa-l-Mulūk , a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrīzī (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the ḥağğ , al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk is re-interpreted here as a complex literary construction that was endowed with different meanings. Through detailed contextualist, narratological, semiotic and codicological analyses Van Steenbergen demonstrates how these meanings were deeply embedded in early-fifteenth century Egyptian transformations, how they changed substantially over time, and how they included particular claims about authorship and about legitimate and good Muslim rule Analysis Middle Eastern history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Saudi Arabia -- Mecca -- Early works to 1800 HISTORY -- World. HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. Kings and rulers Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages SUBJECT Islamic Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography -- Early works to 1800 Subject Islamic Empire Saudi Arabia -- Mecca Genre/Form Biographies Early works Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Dhahab al-masbūk fī dhikr man ḥajja min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-mulūk Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442. Dhahab al-masbūk fī dhikr man ḥajja min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-mulūk. English LC no. 2016040881 ISBN 9789004332362 9004332367

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