Islamic History A Framework for Inquiry – Revised Edition
Islamic History A Framework for Inquiry – Revised Edition by R. Stephen Humphreys, published by Princeton University Press in September 1991, is a comprehensive resource for those looking to navigate the extensive literature on medieval Islamic history. This revised edition spans 401 pages and is presented in English, offering a detailed bibliographic study alongside an examination of methodological approaches. The book begins with a survey of essential reference tools for historians of Islam and systematically reviews the sources they will encounter.
Readers will find a thorough exploration of significant topics in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa from A.D. 600 to 1500. Each chapter addresses key research questions, focusing on the challenges and resources available for studying Islamic history. The selected topics range from the power struggles within the early Islamic community to the experiences of the peasantry, providing a cross-section of Islamic historical studies. This edition serves as a valuable guide for scholars and students interested in the complexities of history, religion, and comparative studies within the context of Islam.
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This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life of the peasantry. Each chapter pursues four questions. What concrete research problems are likely to be most challenging and productive? What resources do we possess for dealing with these problems? What strategies can we devise to exploit our resources most effectively? What is the current state of the scholarly literature for the topic under study?
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