Al-Maqrīzī’s history of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian narrative construction : towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning
(2018)
Mamluk historiography revisited : narratological perspectives.
In Mamluk Studies
15.
p.193-210
- Author
- Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent)
- Organization
- Project
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- MMS-II (The Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate II: historiography, political order and state formation in fifteenth-century Egypt and Syria.)
- Abstract
- In a recent publication, entitled Caliphate and Kingship in a fifteenth century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage, I prepared an English translation and a new critical edition from the Leiden autograph (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek Or. 560, fols. 115v–135r) of a little treatise in Arabic on the history of the ḥajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, entitled al-Dhahab al-Masbūk (‘The Moulded Gold’) by one of late medieval Egypt’s foremost historians, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Maqrīzī (ca. 1365–1442). This chapter will proceed further from the main results that were presented in the first, analytical, part of this publication. It explores what insights may be gained from the addition of another level of macro-structural analysis. This level of analysis will be captured under the notion of Khaldūnian narrative construction. Before pursuing such an analysis in the third and final part of this chapter, first the text itself and the main insights from its study so far are briefly presented, followed by a more detailed explanation of the relevance and definition of that Khaldūnian perspective. In the third and final part it is argued that the literary tool of Khaldūnian narrative construction actually enabled al-Dhahab al-Masbūk to underscore the idea of sultan al-Muʾayyad Shaykh’s (r. 1412-21) legitimate tenure of the sultanate.
- Keywords
- Mamluk studies, Arabic historiography, political history, al-Maqrizi, Ibn Khaldun, narratology
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8552071
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- Van Steenbergen, Jo. “Al-Maqrīzī’s History of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian Narrative Construction : Towards a Macro-Structural Textual Analysis of Form and Meaning.” Mamluk Historiography Revisited : Narratological Perspectives, edited by Stephan Conermann, vol. 15, V&R Unipress, Bonn University Press, 2018, pp. 193–210.
- APA
- Van Steenbergen, J. (2018). Al-Maqrīzī’s history of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian narrative construction : towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning. In S. Conermann (Ed.), Mamluk historiography revisited : narratological perspectives (Vol. 15, pp. 193–210). Bonn: V&R Unipress, Bonn University Press.
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- Van Steenbergen, Jo. 2018. “Al-Maqrīzī’s History of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian Narrative Construction : Towards a Macro-Structural Textual Analysis of Form and Meaning.” In Mamluk Historiography Revisited : Narratological Perspectives, edited by Stephan Conermann, 15:193–210. Bonn: V&R Unipress, Bonn University Press.
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- Van Steenbergen, Jo. 2018. “Al-Maqrīzī’s History of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian Narrative Construction : Towards a Macro-Structural Textual Analysis of Form and Meaning.” In Mamluk Historiography Revisited : Narratological Perspectives, ed by. Stephan Conermann, 15:193–210. Bonn: V&R Unipress, Bonn University Press.
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- 1.Van Steenbergen J. Al-Maqrīzī’s history of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian narrative construction : towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning. In: Conermann S, editor. Mamluk historiography revisited : narratological perspectives. Bonn: V&R Unipress, Bonn University Press; 2018. p. 193–210.
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- [1]J. Van Steenbergen, “Al-Maqrīzī’s history of the Ḥajj (al-Dhahab al-Masbūk) and Khaldūnian narrative construction : towards a macro-structural textual analysis of form and meaning,” in Mamluk historiography revisited : narratological perspectives, vol. 15, S. Conermann, Ed. Bonn: V&R Unipress, Bonn University Press, 2018, pp. 193–210.
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the first, analytical, part of this publication. It explores what insights may be gained from the addition of another level of macro-structural analysis. This level of analysis will be captured under the notion of Khaldūnian narrative construction. Before pursuing such an analysis in the third and final part of this chapter, first the text itself and the main insights from
its study so far are briefly presented, followed by a more detailed explanation of the relevance and definition of that Khaldūnian perspective. In the third and final part it is argued that the literary tool of Khaldūnian narrative construction actually enabled al-Dhahab al-Masbūk to underscore the idea of sultan al-Muʾayyad Shaykh’s (r. 1412-21) legitimate tenure of the sultanate.}},
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