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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2016
      09 September 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316411506
      9781107127036
      9781107565838
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316411506
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 320 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
      Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Religion, Middle East History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Religion, Middle East History
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    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.

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    '… Hanaoka’s book is a monumental piece of scholarship that will open important conversations among scholars of the medieval Islamic Persianate world. … Hanaoka’s study of Persian local histories does much to further the scholarly debate on identities and mentalities within the medieval Perso-Islamic world and will provoke further discussion for the conceivable future on this topic. Her book should appear on every bibliography of medieval Islamic history or literature.'

    Source: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences

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