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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Universal Histories"”.
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Giambattista Vico’s readers in mid-nineteenth-century France, c. 1820-1850
… how his work was used to inform the writing of universal histories, principally by Pierre-Simon Ballanche, Jules Michelet, Giuseppe Ferrari and Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso. In providing a broader aperture of analysis, as well as one more sensitive to the French context, I look at the …
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The Echoes of Fitna: Developing Historiographical Interpretations of the Battle of Siffin
… of the story Ṣiffīn in a specific line of Arabic universal histories, starting with the establishment of the ―vulgate‖ text, Naṣr ibn Muzāḥim al-Minqarī‘s Waqʿat Ṣiffīn, and culminating in the Sunnī Syrian works of Ibn ʿAsākir, Ibn al-ʿAdīm, and Ibn Kathīr. As the vulgate text, al-Minqarī‘s Waqʿat …
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THE APPROPRIATION OF ISLAMIC HISTORY AND AHL AL-BAYTISM IN OTTOMAN HISTORICAL WRITING, 1300-1650
… of early Islamic history. Through the lenses of universal histories, biographies of Muhammad, religious treatieses and other narrative sources, this study examines Ottoman intellectuals’ perceptions of the events that occurred after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 C.E. It particularly …