Edda
£12.00
A Window to the Past?
Sale price
£46.49
Regular price
£61.99
Skip to product information
A Window to the Past?
Tracing Ibn Iyās’s Narrative Ways of Worldmaking
Sale price
£46.49
Regular price
£61.99
Only a few left
The only Arabic voice to have witnessed the Ottoman conquest of Cairo, Ibn Iyās, is an eminent historical source for the late Mamluk period. This book is the first to take stock of the author’s complete works, approaching him through an examination of his narrative voice and writing strategies. Tracing Ibn Iyās’s working process by compilation analysis, it shows how the author adapted his representations of Egyptian history to his writing projects and audience. Ibn Iyās’s ways of worldmaking are shaped deeply by beliefs, biases and intellectual trends as well as the impact of the social and historical context the author wrote in. Knowing these conditioning factors allows to understand his presentation of history as an individual voice of his time.
Dr Anna Kollatz is professor for Islamic Studies (Arabic), University of Heidelberg, who focuses on Islam in the Mediterranean and in South Asia.
- ISBN-13
- 9783847114482
- Publisher
- V&R unipress
- Imprint
- Brill Deutschland GmbH
- Publication date
- 11 July 2022
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 314
- Dimensions
- 237 x 160 mm
- Illustrations
- with one figure
- Language
- English
More in Literary history & criticism
Black Lesbian in White America and Other Writings
£12.71
The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story
The Russian Twentieth Century Short Story
£68.99
A Reader's Guide to Nabokov's 'Lolita'
A Reader's Guide to Nabokov's 'Lolita'
£58.49
Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes
Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes
£63.74
Exemplary Bodies
Exemplary Bodies
£68.99