Chase F Robinson est un professeur émérite et provost au Graduate Center de la City University of New York, spécialisé dans l'histoire et l'historiographie islamiques anciennes. Son travail explore la formation du monde islamique, examinant son développement historique du VIe au XIe siècle. L'approche de Robinson met l'accent sur la complexité et les nuances du récit historique, offrant aux lecteurs une compréhension plus approfondie d'une période cruciale de l'histoire islamique.
An accessible introduction to pre-modern Islam, showcasing the individuals - caliphs, law-makers, theologians, poets, mystics and scholars - who shaped the course of early Islamic history.
How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400-1400? How was the past understood in religious, social and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume, which assembles 28 contributions from leading historians, tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in societies that range from the Korean Peninsula to north-west Europe, which together highlight regional and cultural distinctiveness. Part II complements the first part by taking a thematic and comparative approach; it includes essays on genre, warfare, and religion (amongst others) which address common concerns of historians working in this liminal period before the globalizing forces of the early modern world.
The history of northern Mesopotamia from the Islamic conquests until the early Abbasids, first published in 2000. číst celé