Hanaoka, Mimi,

Authority and identity in medieval islamic historiography : Persian histories from the peripheries / Mimi Hanaoka. - 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Introduction -- Methodologies for reading hybrid identities and imagined histories -- Contexts and authorship -- Dreaming of the prophet -- Holy bloodlines, prophetic utterances, and taxonomies of belonging -- Living virtues of the land -- Sacred bodies and sanctified cities -- Prophetic etymologies and sacred spaces -- The view from anatolia -- Lessons from the peripheries.

9781107565838 RM171.96 (PTSL)


Historiography.
Historical criticism.