Author: Steenbergen, Jo van.
Title: Caliphate and kingship in a fifteenth-century literary history of Muslim leadership and pilgrimage. / al-Dahab al-Masbuk fi dikr man haggaa min al-hulafa' wa-l-muluk. Critical edition, annotated translation, and study by Jo van Steenbergen.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, [2016]. XIV,497 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Bibliotheca Maqriziana, Vol. 4). [ISBN: 978-90-04-32568-5]. - As new (in the book a limited number of lines were made with a soft gray pencil, these have been erased and are barely visible).In this work the Jo van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Dahab al-Masbuk fi dikr man haggaa min al-hulafa' wa-l-muluk, a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrizi (766-845 AH / ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the hagg, al-Dahab al-Masbuk is re-interpreted here as a complex literary construction that was endowed with different meanings. Through detailed contextualist, narratological, semiotic and codicological analyses Van Steenbergen demonstrates how these meanings were deeply embedded in early-fifteenth century Egyptian transformations, how they changed substantially over time, and how they included particular claims about authorship and about legitimate and good Muslim rule. - - Publisher's retail price: € 192.23

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Saudi-Arabia Theology Islam Etnografie Azië Theologie