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Hirschler, Konrad. "Medieval arabic historiography : authors and actors /." London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb410201876.
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Chamberlin, John M. "Imagining defeat an Arabic historiography of the crusades." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/07Mar%5FChamberlin.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Abbas Kadhim. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-68). Also available in print.
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Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward. "Conquests of Egypt : making history in 'Abbāsid Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b8e6cacb-ffd5-48d3-94c6-c06448a337dd.
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This dissertation is a study of the Futūḥ Miṣr (Conquest of Egypt) of Ibn 'Abd al-Ḥakam (d. 257/871), the earliest extant Arabic history of Egypt. Its primary aim is not to assess whether its information is 'authentic' - i.e. corresponding to an objective historical reality - though my findings are of relevance for those engaged in debates over authenticity. My goal instead is to explore the ideas about the past which are conveyed by this particular conglomeration of historical information and to propose methods through which we can expose and analyse different layers and types of authorial activity within a multi-vocal text like Futūḥ Miṣr. Ultimately, I use this analysis as the basis of a case study suggesting how we might more effectively historicise the generation and transmission of historical ideas in the early Islamic period. Part I of the thesis consists of three chapters which explore Futūḥ Miṣr as a whole, literary text which can be understood as an instantiation of the historical worldview of its composer. Part II of the thesis contains three chapters which each illuminate features of Ibn 'Abd al-Ḥakam's historical practice which are important prerequisites for the stratigraphic reading of Futūḥ Miṣr performed in Part III. Part III of the thesis uses the understanding of Ibn 'Abd al-Ḥakam's authorial techniques developed in Part II to expose the earlier packages of historical information which underpin Futūḥ Miṣr. These final three chapters demonstrate how Ibn 'Abd al-Ḥakam reinvested these pre-existing narratives with meaning at a micro-level - by interjecting commentary and accounts from other sources - and at a macro-level - by integrating them into the larger narrative structure of Futūḥ Miṣr. In sum, this thesis is the first systematic study of the sources, structure, and authorship of an early Arabic history, which both tests and expands our current understanding of the dynamics of early Islamic historical writing, and sheds light on numerous aspects of the changing uses of the past among the Muslim scholars of Umayyad and 'Abbāsid Egypt.
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Munt, Thomas H. R. "The sacred history of early Islamic Medina : the prophet, caliphs, scholars and the town's Ḥaram". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e8394f8b-238a-4b23-8bfc-cdf395db0f1a.
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This thesis investigates the emergence of Medina in the Ḥijāz as a widely-venerated holy city over the first three Islamic centuries (seventh to ninth centuries CE) within the appropriate historical context, with special attention paid to the town’s ḥaram. It focuses in particular upon the roles played by the Prophet Muḥammad, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, and early Islamic legal scholars in this development. It shows that Medina’s emergence as a widely-venerated holy city alongside Mecca was a gradual and contested process, and one that was intimately linked with several important developments concerning legitimate political, religious, and legal authority in the Islamic world. The most important sources for this study have been Medina’s local histories, and Chapter One investigates the development of a tradition of local history-writing there. The Prophet Muḥammad first created a form of sacred space, a ḥaram, at Medina, and Chapter Two seeks to provide the context for this by investigating some forms of sacred and protected space found in the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula. Chapter Three then examines a rare early document preserved in the later Islamic sources, which deals in part with Muḥammad’s creation of Medina’s ḥaram, the so-called “Constitution of Medina”, and investigates why and how Muḥammad created that particular form of sacred space at Medina. The remaining two chapters deal with the history of Muḥammad’s ḥaram at Medina after his death as its original raison d’être disappeared. Chapter Four analyses some aspects of Muslim legal scholars’ discussions concerning Medina’s ḥaram, and demonstrates that certain groups disputed its existence. Chapter Five then seeks to understand why caliphs and other scholars invested so heavily in actively promoting its widespread veneration and Medina’s status as a holy city. It concludes that caliphs from the late first/early eighth century patronised Medina to associate themselves with legitimate political authority inherited from Muḥammad, and that from the late second/eighth century certain legal scholars argued for the continued existence of Medina’s ḥaram because of its association with the Prophet and his Companions who had come to be for them the ultimate source of legal authority.
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Jackson, Bonner Michael Richard. "An historiographical study of Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Dawud ibn Wanand al-Dinawari's Kitab al-Ahbar al-Tiwal (especially of that part dealing with the Sasanian kings)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:36f7c6b5-f9f2-44cd-83e6-2a4eaa7f4559.
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This thesis is a study of the pre-Islamic passages of Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd ibn Wanand Dīnawarī's Kitāb al-Aḫbār al-Ṭiwāl. This is to say that it stops at the beginning of the Arab conquest of Iran. It is intended for scholars of Late Antiquity. Special emphasis is placed on Dīnawarī's exposition of the rule of the Sasanian dynasty and questions relating to the mysterious Ḫudāynāma tradition which are intimately connected with it. Beginning with a discussion of Dīnawarī and his work, the thesis moves into a discussion of indigenous Iranian historiography. Speculation on the sources of Kitāb al-Aḫbār al-Ṭiwāl follows, and the historiographical investigation of the most substantial portion of Kitāb al-Aḫbār al-Ṭiwāl's notices on the Sasanian dynasty comes next. The conclusion summarises the findings of the thesis. The final section (an appendix) is a translation of the relevant part of Kitāb al-Aḫbār al-Ṭiwāl running from the beginning of that text to the reign of Šīrūya. This thesis was written with one main question in mind: what does Dīnawarī's Kitāb al-Aḫbār al-Ṭiwāl have to say about pre-Islamic Iranian history? A host of other questions arose immediately: who was Dīnawarī; when did he live; what did he do; how was his work perceived by others; where did Dīnawarī get his information and how did he present it; is Dīnawarī's information reliable? These questions are addressed one by one in my thesis.
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Determann, Jorg Matthias. "Globalization, the state, and narrative plurality : historiography in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14244/.
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This thesis examines historiography in modern Saudi Arabia. Many students of modern Arab historiography have focused on the development of historical professions and the historiographical legitimation of regimes. In contrast, this thesis seeks to explain the emergence of a plurality of historical narratives in the kingdom in the absence of formal political pluralism. It thus pays special attention to amateur and unofficial histories. Since the 1920s, texts about local, tribal and Shiite communities emerged that diverged from, and contested, the histories focusing on the royal family. They emphasized the communities' historical independence from the Al Saud or asserted the communities' importance in Saudi national history. Since the 1970s, distinct social and economic histories also developed. These histories described important historical events as the result of wider social and economic factors rather than the actions of individual rulers or communities. The thesis argues that this narrative plurality was the product of the building and expansion of the Saudi state in the context of globalization. The state subsidized not only dynastic histories, but also many texts on local, social and economic history. It also provided an increasing number of its citizens with education and employment in the expanding public sector. It thus empowered a variety of previously illiterate and relatively poor sections of Saudi society, including former Bedouin tribespeople, to produce conformist, but also dissenting histories. Globalization not only facilitated narrative plurality by putting Saudi historians in contact with different ideologies, methodologies, and source material from abroad, it also allowed authors to publish their works abroad and online beyond governmental censorship. But state expansion and globalization have not been restricted to Saudi Arabia, and this thesis suggests that these processes may also have led to narrative plurality in Arab historiography more generally, even under the conditions of authoritarianism.
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Lynch, Ryan Joseph. "Between the conquests and the court : a critical analysis of the Kitāb Futūḥ al-Buldān of al-Balādhurī." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:54ae6728-7872-4daa-9e44-589be213ec70.
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When considering the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, there are few which have greater importance than al-Balādhurī's (d. ca. 892 CE/279 AH) Kitāb Futūḥ al-Buldān (The Book of the Conquest of Lands). While the text and its author are recognized for their importance as a historical source for the early Islamic period, there has previously been no in-depth study of either. This dissertation works to correct these gaps in knowledge of the author and his text by investigating the construction, form, content, and early reception history of al-Balādhurī's book. This research begins by providing a manuscript tradition of Futūḥ al-Buldān, including a discussion of a previously unpublished manuscript. It thereafter illuminates the background of al-Balādhurī, bringing together much of the previous scholarship on the author while augmenting that information with an analysis of biographical sources and the text itself. It situates the author and his text in its ninth/third century milieu, a period of history where the early Arabic historical tradition was still in its infancy and only just being committed to writing. It suggests the text was likely completed at the end of the "anarchy at Sāmarrā'" in the late 860s CE, and highlights the author's role at the court of several 'Abbāsid Caliphs. After this, it discusses a number of al-Balādhurī's most important (and, in some cases, previously understudied) sources of information, and argues that the author chose to differentiate when he was learning information directly from a teacher and when he had access to written sources. It then analyzes the content and themes of the text, placing special attention on the unique form of Futūḥ al-Buldān and its importance in providing modern scholars with information on the conquest, settlement, and building projects of the early Islamic world. In considering these key themes, this research then argues that Futūḥ al-Buldān defies traditional modern genre classification by borrowing form and content from several different Arabic genres including conquest literature (futūḥ), legal texts, and administrative geographies. It contends that both the text's content and form suggest that it was written to be read by courtly administrators in the service of the state as both a site of memory (lieu de mémoire) and as an "administrator's handbook" during a time of upheaval in the 'Abbāsid realm. Finally, it considers the legacy of Futūḥ al-Buldān and the popularity of al-Balādhurī's book throughout the medieval period through an analysis of textual reuse.
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OUERGHEMMI, M'HAMED. ""al-m'unis", "l'ami affable", ou "de l'histoire de l'ifriqiya et de tunis"." Nice, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990NICE2012.
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Le kitad "al-mu'nis" est un ouvrage d'histoire de l'ifriqiya, la tunisie actuelle au moyen-age accrue ver l'est et vers l'ouest, et de tunis. Il a ete ecrit au 17e siecle (acheve en aout 7681). L'ouvrage se compose de sept livres et d'un epilogue. Le premier livre est consacre a la description de tunis, le second a celle de l'ifriqiya. Dans le troisieme livre, l'auteur fait le recit de la conquete de l'ifriqiya par les armees musulmanes. La dynastie 'ubaydide est l'objet du quatrieme livre, tandis que l'etat des rois sanhajides est l'objet du livre cinquieme. Le livre sixieme comporte deux chapitres. Dans le premier, on nous donne un resume sur les dunasties de l'occident musulman, et le second, on le reserve a l'histoire des hafsides. Le septieme livre est consacre au recit de la prise de tunis et de la goulette par les ottomans, a l'histoire des deys et des beys muradiotes. Le merite d'al-mu'nis en l'absence de toute oeuvre historique importante, est d'apporter des precisions et des details sur un moment "des siecles obscurs" du maghreb.
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Souza, Emily Fonseca de. "A unificação da Síria e o jihād de Nūr ad-Dīn na crônica Kitāb al-Kāmil fi l-ta\'rīkh, de Ibn al-Athīr." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-25102016-115357/.
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Em nossa dissertação, estudamos o excerto da crônica Kitāb al-Kāmil fi l-ta\'rīkh, de Ibn al-Athīr, que relata os anos de governo de Nūr ad-Dīn. Nossa pesquisa é dividida em três partes. Na primeira, apresentamos o autor e sua obra, a origem e a composição da crônica, além do debate historiográfico sobre a obra. Na segunda, abordamos os gêneros retóricos da Retórica de Aristóteles e a aplicação de dois destes gêneros, epidítico e deliberativo, na composição do discurso de Ibn al-Athīr. Na terceira, realizamos uma síntese das definições de jihād tanto no Alcorão quanto nos tratados jurídicos muçulmanos e mostramos como o nosso autor se apropria deles para legitimar as ações de Nūr ad-Dīn e construir, por meio de seu discurso, a figura do biografado como um exemplo de governante.<br>In our dissertation, we study the extract of Ibn al-Athīr\'s chronicle, Kitāb al-Kāmil fi l-ta\'rīkh, reporting the years of Nūr ad-Dīn\'s governmet. Our research is divided into three parts. The first presents the author and his work, the chronicles origin and the composition, besides presenting the historiographical debate on the work. The second approachs the rhetoric genres of Aristotles Rhetoric and the use of two of these genres, epideictic and deliberative, at the construction of Ibn al-Athīr\'s discourse. The third discusses the definitions of jihād both at Coran and at muslims juridical treatises, indicating how our author uses them to legitimate Nūr ad-Dīn\'s action in order to elaborate him, through his discourse, as an example of ruler.
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Lauzière, Henri. "On the origins of Arab monarchy, political culture, historiography, and the emergence of the modern kingdoms in Morocco and Saudi Arabia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ51387.pdf.
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Bousleh, Wijdene. "L'image de la Perse et des Perses au IVème siècle chez Ammien Marcellin : tradition romaine et tradition arabo-persane : regards croisés." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAC001/document.
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L’image de la Perse et des Perses occupe une place importante dans l’œuvre d’Ammien Marcellin, un Syrien hellénisé du IVe siècle, auteur d’un ouvrage historique écrit en latin. La présente recherche, qui replace le sujet dans le reste de la tradition romaine et la tradition arabo-persane, s’articule en trois parties : « Ammien, une source majeure ? », « L’image de la Perse chez Ammien : l’art de la description », et enfin « Les Perses dans le récit du conflit romano-perse de 354 à 378 : l’art du portrait et de la narration ». Il en ressort qu’Ammien a adopté un point de vue romain, tout en se distinguant de la tradition historiographique romaine antérieure. Il se démarque également de la tradition arabo-persane. Ammien, auteur atypique de par ses origines et du sujet qu’il traite, l’est aussi par son écriture<br>The image of Persia and Persians occupies an important place in the work of Ammianus Marcellinus, a hellenized Syrian of the 4th century, author of a historical written in latin. The present research, which replaces the subject in the rest of the roman tradition and the arabo-persian tradition, is articulated in three parts : « Ammianus, a major source ? », « The image of Persia at Ammianus : the art of description », and finally, « The Persians on the account of the Romano-Persia conflict from 354 to 378 : the art of the portrait and the narration ». This reveals that Ammianus adopted a roman point of view, while being distinguished from the former roman historiographical tradition. He also dissociates arabo-persian tradition. Ammianus, author atypical from his origins and the subject which it treats, is also by its wrinting
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Siraj, Ahmed. "L'Afrique du Nord antique d'après les sources arabes du Moyen Âge : histoire et géographie historique : exemple : le Maroc septentrional." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010575.
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L'une des particularités du Maghreb dans l'historiographie moderne est la "discontinuité" de son histoire. Ce caractère est bien clair notamment pour la période qui sépare la fin de l'antiquité du début du moyen-âge. En prenant le Maroc du nord comme exemple, cette recherche tente à rétablir les liens entre les deux périodes. A partir d'une nouvelle lecture des sources arabes médiévales, le projet vise la recherche des nouvelles données concernant l'histoire et l'archéologie de la période antique d'une part, et l'examen de l'image de cette histoire telle qu'elle était reconstruite et élaborée par les historiens arabes, de l'autre. Ainsi, cette thèse est constituée de deux axes principaux : d'abord l'étude de l'ensemble des connaissances des écrivains arabes relatives aux antiquités maghrébines en comparaison avec les données des sources classiques ; ensuite l'étude des textes géographiques en vue d'en tirer les informations concernant les vestiges de la période antique. Aussi bien sur le plan historique que sur celui de la géographie historique, cette étude a permis d'ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives pour les recherches à venir<br>One of the features of Maghreb in modern historiography is the "discontinuity" of its history. This characteristic is very clear especially for the era which separate the end of the antiquity from the beginning of the middle-age. By taking the north of Morocco as an example, this research tempts to restore the ties betwen the tow periods. From a new reading of the medieval arabic sources, this work aims at the research for new data concerning the history and archeology of the antique period on the one hand, and the examination of the image of this history as it was reconstructed and elaborated by the arab historians, on the other. Thus, this thesis is constituted of tow principal axes : first, we have analysed the totality of the learnings of the rabic writers relative to the maghribian antiquities in comparison with the data of the classical sources, then, we have studied the geographical texts to draw the informations concerning the vestiges of the antique periode. Both on the historical level and the on that of the historical geography, this study allows to apen new perspectives for other researches in the future
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Peskes, Esther. "Muḥammad B. ʻAbdalwahhāb (1703-92) im Widerstreit : Untersuchungen zur Rekonstruktion der Frühgeschiche der Wahhābīya /". Beirut : in Kommission bei F. Steiner, Stuttgart, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb356876301.
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Beaudoin, Sophie. "La quête de la juste mémoire : "Histoire de l'autre", un manuel scolaire israélo-palestinien." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/24683/24683.pdf.
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Muqallad, Muḥammad ʿAlī. "Poesie et conflits ideologiques au liban entre 1967 et 1984." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040299.
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Cette recherche a traite d'un sujet actuel. Elle a essaye d'elaborer un point de vue concernant le rapport entre la poesie et la politique au liban, mais elle a surtout evoque beaucoup de questions. Notre etude sur la poesie au liban nous a encourage a appronfondir nos propos qui concernent la rhetorique et la musique de la poesie. Quoique determinante fut-t-elle l'ideologie ne peut pas, a elle seule determiner l'evolution des structures lexicales, semantiques, et semiotiques, et bien qu'elle soit "notre vision meme structure ideologique cree une diversite de styles.
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Dalil, Essakali Mohyeddine. "La conception de l'histoire dans l'oeuvre d'Ali-Maqrizi : 1364-1442." Bordeaux 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990BOR30022.
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Notre these contient une introduction ou nous soulevons la problematique autour de laquelle tourne cette these, une conclusion contenant les resultats obtenus durant notre etude, a savoir qu'al-maqrizi est un historien humaniste ayant fonde une ecole historiographique egyptienne, et quatre chapitres. Le premier chapitre contient des donnees bio-bibliographiques. Il se base sur deux points essentiels : les sources anciennes et les etudes maqriziennes modernes et les recherches modernes concernant al-maqrizi. Le deuxieme chapitre est un essai d'une recontitution de la representation theorique de la science de l'histoire chez al-maqrizi ou il est question de la definition de l'histoire, de la place de celle-ci parmi les autres sciences et de la fin de la connaissance historique. Le troisieme chapitre renferme les differents sujets vers lesquels l'interet d'al-maqrizi s'oriente. Le quatrieme chapitre porte sur les procedes du travail historiographique chez al-maqrizi. Il y est question de sa methode d'information, de sa technique d'exposition et des formes d'expression utilisees par lui<br>Our thesis contains one introduction, one conclusion containing the results obtaining during our study pecially that al-maqrizi is one humanitarian historian and a founde one egyptian historiographic school, and four chapters. The first chapter contains the bio-bibliographic datums. It rely on two essential points : the old springs and the modern maqrizian studys. The second chapter is one essay of one reconstruction of the theorecal representation of the science of history at al-maqrizi where there is talk of the definition of the history, her place among the other sciences and of the goal of historic knowledge. The third chapter contains the differents subjects towards who the interest of al-maqrizi takes. And the eighteenth chapter bears on the proceedings of the historiographic work at al-maqrizi. There is talk of his method of the information, his technic of the exposure and the forms of the expression employing by him
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Bouamrane, Samia. "Kitâb al-Massâlik wa-l-Mamâlik Li (Le livre des itinéraires et des royaumes) d’Abî Ubayd al-Bakrî (XIe siècle) : étude fragmentaire." Paris 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA010647.
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Dans ses massalik, al-bakri veut se donner le genre d'un routier. C'est ainsi qu'il decrit les itineraires, les villes des differentes regions connues du monde, a son epoque. Cet ouvrage est riche en informations geographiques, historiques, ethnographiques, culturel les. . . Il comporte une premiere partie exclusivement historique dans laquelle on trouve l'histoire de la creation du monde d'apres les philosophes grecs et les traditions biblique et islamique et l'histoire des prophetes d'adam et abraham, epoque de la confusion des langues. La seconde partie, geographique, porte sur la description du pays des slaves d'apres la relation d'ibrahim ibn ya'qub, juif de tortose qui a laisse une relation de voyage en europe orientale. D'autres chapitres donnent la description du pays des francs, des galiciens, des bulgares, des hongrois, des rum (byzance et rome), et des iles de la mediterranee. La peninsule iberique occupe un long chapitre. Les principales villes sont decrites et les evenements essentiels sont relates. Un dernier chapitre donne des renseignements sur les francs, les bretons et les galiciens. La troisieme partie est reservee d'une part, a l'analyse des nombreuses sources qui ont servi a l'elaboration des massalik et, d'autre part a la methode qu'a suivie al-bakri pour composer son oeuvre --<br>Throw the following "book of routes and kingdoms", al-bakri expected to give himself the style of chronical road man. He describes the routes, the twons of different regions in the world known in his period. His work gives historic, ethnographic and cultural informations. It consists on three parts. The firsts part is an exclusively historical one. It describes both creation and term of world from the greek philosophy, biblic and islamic traditions. The author provides prophet's history from adam to abraham. The second part is a geographical one. It amphasies upon the slavonic country by ibrahim ibn ya'qub al-israili, from tortosa who lets a narrative of travel in eastern europe. Some chapters describe the francs, galiciens, bulgarians, hungarians and rum (byzantium and rome) countries. Some other informations are mediterranean sea isles. A long chapter countains the iberian peninsula and the description of the most famous twons. The later chapter gives some informations about francs, bretons and galicians. The third part provides with critical analysis of sources which let the author to well achieve both his work and methodology. The fourth part is the arab text after its arrangement
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Buresi, Pascal. "Une frontière entre chrétienté et Islam : la région entre Tage et Sierra Morena (fin XIe-milieu XIIIe siècle)." Lyon 2, 2000. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2000/buresi_p.
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Par le croisement des sources arabes et latines avec les résultats des prospections archéologiques, cette étude vise à éclairer les modalités territoriales du contact entre chrétienté et Islam sur la frontière castellano-andalusî. La difficulté de la démarche réside dans la marginalité des régions frontalières, oubliées par des textes généralement conçus dans les cercles du pouvoir central. De la prise de Tolède par Alphonse VI de Castille (1085) à la victoire chrétienne de Las Navas de Tolosa contre les Almohades (1212), le territoire entre Tage et Sierra Morena constitue une des zones de contact entre la chrétienne et l'islam. Cette situation frontalière provoque la déstructuration du peuplement et l'adaptation des activités économiques traditionnelles (agriculture, élevage et commerce) : elle suscite l'émergence de pratiques spécifiquement frontalières (razzia hôpital de rachat de captifs) et engendre une militarisation généralisée des activités et de l'architecture. L'approche comparée de l'organisation des pouvoirs (chrétienne et musulmane) permet de mettre en valeur des différences fondamentales dans l'administration et la défense des territoires frontaliers : du côté chrétien, importance de la seigneurie dans la structure socio-économique du territoire, rôle des ordres militaires et des concejos, force de la monarchie castillac, émergence de solidarités transversales entre les royaumes chrétiens (malgré la naissance de principautés indépendantes jouant sur leurs rivalités à la frontière de l'Islam) et, du côté musulman prise en charge étatique de la défense du territoire déconcentration et délégation du pouvoir aux gouverneurs provinciaux à l'époque almoravide, patrimonialisation des charges provinciales et centralisation sous les Almohades. L'analyse à différentes échelles permet d'intégrer cette région frontalière dans le cadre méditerranéen d'affrontement croissant entre chrétienté et Islam à l'époque des croisades, de la guerre sainte et du djihad.
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Chekroun, Amélie. "Le" Futuh al-Habasa" : écriture de l'histoire, guerre et société dans le Bar Sa'ad ad-din (Ethiopie, XVIe siècle)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010699/document.
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Le "Futuh al-Habasa", récit en arabe de différentes guerres menées par l'imam Ahmad depuis le sultanat du "Bar Sa'ad ad-din" contre le royaume chrétien d'Ethiopie entre les années 1520 et 1535/1537, relate notamment comment l'essentiel des territoires chrétiens est passé provisoirement sous domination musulmane au cours de la « conquête de l'Abyssinie » (1531-1543). En analysant cette source endogène unique en son genre, cette thèse vise à proposer un changement de perspective dans la manière dont est abordée l'histoire de l'Ethiopie, an accordant sa pleine place à l'islam éthiopien, au carrefour entre les études éthiopiennes et celles sur l'islam médiéval.L'analyse littéraire du "Futuh al-Habasa" révèle que son auteur, Arab Faqih, rédigea cet ouvrage après l'échec de la « conquête de l'Abyssinie », probablement en vue de convaincre les élites du "Bar Sa'ad ad-din" de repartir à la conquête du royaume chrétien. En faisant appel à la littérature des premiers siècles de l'islam mais aussi à des références plus contemporaines, Arab Faqih réalise ainsi une apologie du "gihad" en présentant l'imam Ahmad comme le modèle du parfait "mugahid".D'autre part l'étude de l'histoire du "Bar Sa'ad ad-din" (1415-1583), des rapports de pouvoir au sein du sultanat et des relations que ce dernier entretenait avec le royaume chrétien voisin, révèle les facteurs internes à cette société qui ont conduit l'imam Ahmad à entreprendre une telle guerre. Le Futuh al-Habasa montre enfin que cette conquête vit l'émergence de nouvelles pratiques de guerre et de nouvelles manières de la penser, et détaille le projet d'une « grande Ethiopie musulmane » qui ne survécut pas à la mort de l'imam en 1543<br>The Futuh al-Habasa is an Arabic language account of a number of wars initiated by the imam Ahmad from the Bar Sa'ad ad-din sultanate against the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia between the years 1520 and 1535/1537 ; of particular interest is its narrative of the temporary Muslim domination of the majority of the Christian territories during the conquest of Abyssinia (1531-1543). Through analysis of this unique endogenous source this PhD aims to propose a new way to approach th history of Ethiopia by considering the Ethiopian Islam as a full-fledged topic, at the crossroads between the studies on Ethiopia and those on Medieval Islam.The literary analysis of the Futuh al-Habasa reveals that its author, Arab Faqih, wrote this account after the failure of the « conquest of Abyssinia », probably with a view to convince the elites of the Bar Sa'ad ad-din to march on the Christian kingdom once again. Drawing on literature from the first centuries of Islam as well as on more contemporary references, Arab Faqih thus writes an apology of gihad, presenting the imam Ahmad as being an example of the perfect mugahid.On the other hand, studying the history of the Bar Sa'ad ad-din (1415-1583), the power relationships inside the sultanate and its links with the neighbouring Christian kingdom, reveals the factors internal to this society that pushed the imam Ahmad to undertake such a war. The Futuh al-Habasa shows finally that during this conquest, new practices of war and new ways of conceiving it emerged. It also details the project of a « great Muslim Ethiopia » that didn't survive the death of the imam in 1543
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Lang, Katherine H. "Awa'il in early Arabic historiography : beginnings and identity in the middle Abbasid empire /." 1997. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9811886.
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McLaren, Andrew G. "Ibn A‘tham's History: Transmission and Translation in Islamicate Written Culture, 290-873/902-1468." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-j0mq-f097.
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This dissertation is a study of the composition and reception of two chronicles written in Arabic in the first decades of the fourth century of the Islamic hijrī era (the tenth century of the current era). They were written by a little-known scholar usually called Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn A‘tham al-Kūfī. Although no complete copy of the Arabic histories survives, the history was widely circulated in Persian. In other words, unlike most authors, Ibn A‘tham became somewhat more famous as his text circulated further. This work sets out to explain how this came to happen in two parts.
The first part examines the composition of Ibn A‘tham’s history, arguing on biobibliographical, paleographical, and textual evidence that Ibn A‘tham must have belonged to the first decades of the fourth/tenth century. This argument serves as prelude to the second part, in which I show how Ibn A‘tham’s history developed over time, watching as selective readings and manuscript damage led to reduced engagements with Ibn A‘tham. Here, by examining how other historians quoted Ibn A‘tham, I track the logics of writing and reading that guided their encounters. The dissertation culminates in the sixth chapter, in which I provide a conceptual history for the Persian translation, showing how Ibn A‘tham’s history was re-imagined and prepared for its yet-bright future as a work of Persian historiography. Ultimately, I try to show the critical place filled by the culture of writing shared between Arabic and Persian: Rather than a firm boundary between two distinct languages, in the lens of Ibn A‘tham’s history, we observe a zone of interaction and innovation.