A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods

A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research.Amar S. Baadj, Ph.D. (2012), University of Toronto, is a post-doctoral researcher at Trier University. His research focuses on medieval North Africa and Arabic historiography. Among his publications is Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya: The Contest for North Africa (12th and 13th centuries), (Brill, 2015). *Partially in Arabic.Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan. A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. دليل الدراسات العربية الحديثة حول العصور القديمة والوسيطة يحتوي هذا الكتاب على 61 بحثا حول الدراسات الأكاديمية المتعلّقة بتاريخ العصور القديمة والوسيطة في العالم العربي، وتغطي هذه الأبحاث تخصصات علمية متنوعة منها الدراسات المسمارية والدراسات المملوكية، إضافةً إلى بعض المدارس التاريخية العربية المعاصرة. الكتاب فريد من نوعه والأول في كافة اللغات، ويُشكّل مصدرا هاما للباحثين والطلبة في دراسات الشرق الأدنى القديم وشمال إفريقيا في العصور القديمة والدراسات الكلاسيكية والبيزنطية والتاريخ الإسلامي الوسيط، وكذلك للمهتمين بعلمي التاريخ والآثار في الدول العربية. Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan. Contents 5 English Preface 7 ةمدقملا 16 Acknowledgements 23 Notes on Contributors 25 Part 1 The Study of the Ancient World 31 1 Assyriologie im Irak: Ein kurzer Überblick 33 2 Egyptian Egyptology, from Its Birth in the Late Nineteenth Century until the Early 2000s 72 3 Historiography of Pre-Islamic Arabia: Arab Scholarsand Their Contributions to the Writing of theHistory of Ancient Yemen 130 4 Contributions des chercheurs marocains dans l’enseignement de l’histoire ancienne 168 5 Les sciences de l’antiquité en l’Algérie : bilan et perspectives 187 6 Receptions of Classical Antiquity in Egypt and the Arab World: Parallel Narratives, Invisible Corpora and a Troubled Archive 279 Part 2 The Study of the Middle Ages 325 7 The Study of Byzantine History in Egypt (1945–2017) 327 8 Hichem Djaït, maître d’une école historique pour l’étude de l’Islam 390 9 The Umayyads in Contemporary Arabic Historical Writing 409 10 Historical Writing in Modern Iraq: Personalities and Trends 442 11 L’histoire sociale et économique médiévale de Al-Magrib et Al-Andalus chez les chercheurs arabes 461 12 Les travaux d’histoire médiévale dans les universités algériennes: bilan et tendances actuelles 475 13 Mamluk Studies in the Arab World 511 14 Modern Egyptian Arabic Scholarship on Mamluk Arts and Architecture (1250–1517) 564 15 Les études académiques arabes en histoire concernant «les relations Maghreb-Machreq» au Moyen Âge 603 16 Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on Medieval Europe: A Bibliographical Study 625 Index 647 A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. Amar S. Baadj, Ph.D. (2012), University of Toronto, is a post-doctoral researcher at Trier University. His research focuses on medieval North Africa and Arabic historiography. Among his publications is Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya: The Contest for North Africa (12th and 13th centuries), (Brill, 2015). Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan. "A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. Contributors: Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan"-- Provided by publisher