scholarly journals New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Late Medieval ◽  
Medieval Egypt

CHRISTOPHER S. TAYLOR, In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziy―ara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt, Islamic History and Civilization, Studies and Texts, vol. 32 (Leiden, Boston, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1999). Pp. 280. $93.50 cloth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-546
Author(s):  
Boaz Shoshan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Medieval Egypt

This book, based on a Ph.D. thesis submitted at Princeton University about ten years ago, is a welcome contribution to historians' relatively narrow preoccupation with Islam as practiced rather than the Islam of textual production. Its author, currently associate professor of religious studies at Drew University, sets out to describe and analyze a vital practice of Islamic piety that is the cult of Muslim dead “saints” (ziy―ara) in Egypt between 1200 and 1500 C.E. The choice of the topic is certainly pertinent, for, as Taylor notes, the saint phenomenon has not received the study it deserves. Goldziher's pioneering article, although written more than 100 years ago, remains to a large extent unsurpassed, and most of the research since has been done on the geographic peripheries of the Islamic world and largely in a modern context.

“A rather small genre”: Arabic Works Against Non-Muslim State Officials

Der Islam ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Yarbrough
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Common ◽  
Medieval Egypt

Abstract:Muslim authors composed a number of polemics against the employment of non-Muslim state officials in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Egypt and Syria. This essay argues that the majority of these works drew directly or indirectly on a previously unremarked sixth/twelfth century common source. Although the common source cannot yet be securely identified, its existence and influence have significant implications for historians’ understanding of interreligious tensions in late medieval Egypt and Syria and for the

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