The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam

Markiewicz, Christopher

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“…Bidlīsī rejected the more common practice of the Ottoman chronicles of his own day, which most frequently offered simple accounts of the great deeds of the Ottoman sultans. Instead, Bidlīsī's chronicle drew upon the most varied epistemological traditions-Quranic, poetic, esoteric, astrological, philosophical, and theosophical-to create a narrative that also substantiated his overarching claim for the cosmically ordained and divinely sanctioned rule of the Ottoman house in his own age 80. The result was a massive work that in volume, scope, and stated ambition easily surpassed all previous historical projects supported by the Ottoman house.…”

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History as Science: The Fifteenth-Century Debate in Arabic and Persian

Markiewicz

2017

J Early Mod Hist

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In the fifteenth century, scholars writing in Arabic and Persian debated the nature of historical inquiry and its place among the sciences. While the motivations and perspectives of the various scholars differed, the terms and parameters of the debate remained remarkably fixed and focused, even as it unfolded across a vast geographic space between Herat, Cairo, and Constantinople. This article examines the contours of this debate and the relationships between five historians working on these issues. Although the scholars who considered these questions frequently arrived at different conclusions, they all firmly agreed, in contrast to previous doubt regarding the status of history, that historical inquiry did indeed constitute a distinct science requiring its own particular method. Accordingly, the debate and its conclusions helped cement the place of history within the broader pantheon of the sciences as conceived by scholars in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onwards.

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History as Science: The Fifteenth-Century Debate in Arabic and Persian

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2017

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The Cambridge History of the Kurds

2021

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The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.

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