Vol. 24 (2021): Cromohs
Book Reviews

Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World The Value of Chronicles as Archives

Mustafa Banister
Utah State University
Cover image: Alcázar Palace, Seville: the Salón de Embajadores (Hall of the Ambassadors). Watercolour, attributed to E.S., ninetheenth century. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain

Published 2022-06-08

Keywords

  • Medieval Islamic World,
  • Fatimid period,
  • Ibn al-Furāt,
  • Fozia Bora,
  • medieval Arabic chronicles,
  • history of historiography
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Abstract

Review of

Fozia Bora, Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World: The Value of Chronicles as Archives (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019)

reviwed by Mustafa Banister