IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1534: Chronicles as Archives in Medieval Islamic Contexts, I
Thursday 6 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Fozia Bora, School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Arabic, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Arezou Azad, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1534-a | Chronicles as Archives in Medieval Islamic Contexts: An Introduction (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1534-b | Documents in al-Balahdhuri's Conquests of the Lands (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1534-c | The Capture of Baghdad in Fatimid Historical Memory: The Evidence for an Official Court Account, c. 450 AH (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Abstract | In the medieval Islamic world, in contrast to the Christian West, documents were rarely preserved in archives. Yet chroniclers often mentioned documents and sometimes quoted from them. This session will begin with a general introduction to the topic, illustrated from the speaker's own research. The second paper will consider how documents were incorporated into a history of the Islamic conquests and how they functioned in contemporary debates on inter-communal relations. The third speaker will argue that accounts of the capture of Baghdad by in later Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk chronicles were based on Fatimid archival records that have not survived. |