HISTORIOGRAPHY IN TURKEY TODAY
In: Middle Eastern affairs, Band 10, Heft 10, S. 317-325
ISSN: 0544-0483
In: Middle Eastern affairs, Band 10, Heft 10, S. 317-325
ISSN: 0544-0483
In: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular focus on two well-known texts: Abu Shama's The Book of the Two Gardens, and Ibn Wasil's The Dissipater of Anxieties. These texts describe events during the life of the sultans Nur-al-Din and Salah al-Din, who are primarily known in modern times as the champions of the anti-Crusade movement. Hirschler shows that these two authors were active interpreters of their society and has considerable room for manoeuvre in both their social environment and the shaping of their texts. Through the use of a fresh and original theoretical approach to pre-modern Arabic historiography, Hirschler presents a new understanding of these texts which have before been relatively neglected, thus providing a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of historiographical studies.
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 129-131
ISSN: 1471-6380
The fate of Afghanistan's written history has been interconnected with the progression and regression of the Afghan state's ability to live with its past as much as with its present. Afghan historiography, in both the official and unofficial versions, has generally sought to "prove" or "disprove" the official versions of Afghanistan's evolving national narrative rather than be, in the words of Edward H. Carr, "a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past." Despite unprecedented freedoms of expression and exposure to international methods of research, post-Taliban Afghanistan still seems far from coming to terms with its past. One particular trend continues to haunt the country as it tries to move forward in deconstructing or reinventing its history: official Afghan narratives continue to downplay or ignore the violent and divisive period commencing with the 1973 coup that ended the country's monarchical system.
In: Variorum collected studies series
Frontiers in the Middle Ages -- Medieval Latin metaphors -- Metaphors for religion life in the Middle Ages -- The abstraction of personal qualities in the Middle Ages -- L'idea di innovazione nel XII secolo -- The relation between the sun and the moon in Medieval thought (to 1200) -- The dislocation of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages -- The crow of St Vincent: on the continuity of a hagiographical motif -- The concept of princeps in Gratian's decretum -- Love and do what you will: the Medieval history of an Augustinian precept -- Monastic letter writing in the Middle Ages -- Communications between religious houses in the Middle Ages -- The future of Cluniac studies -- Religious history -- From church history to religion culture: the study of Medieval religion life and spirituality -- Introduction, Medieval scholarship -- The many Middle Ages: Medieval studies in Europe as seen from America.
ISSN: 0137-5202, 1234-2041
In: The journal of Israeli history: politics, society, culture, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 79-107
ISSN: 1744-0548
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 571-582
ISSN: 0020-8701
Relationships between anthrop & history have varied signif'ly with diff anthrop'al trends & Sch's of thought, such as evolutionism, diffusionism, functionalism or structuralism. Over the past decade, the methods of soc anthrop have been applied to the establishment of historiographic data for peoples whose traditional outlook did not include the idea of 'objective' history. Such anthropol'al work is helped by the use of auxiliary techniques & by the development of certain forms of historical consciousness in traditional societies. Yet the anthrop'st must put himself at the service of historiography & cannot take the place of the historian. HA.
In: Routledge studies in the history of economics 213
In: Routledge studies in the history of economics, 213
In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This has opened up new questions regarding the utilization of sources, choice of method, narrative styles, and ethical issues, as well as a new awareness of the historian's place, role, and task. 0This book brings together leading contributors to provide, for the first time, a methodological overview of the historiography of economics. Emphasising the quality of the scholarship of recent decades, the book seeks to provide research tools for future historians of economic thought, as well as to any historians of social science with an interest in historiographic issues.
In: From Melos to My Lai
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, S. 1-61
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary, S. 23-65
In: Global and Transnational History
In: Storming Heaven, S. 176-196