[Andalusi Studies] Maghribi historiography help

[Guy Burak]

Hello Elizabeth,

You may find Yigal Nizri's recent dissertation (*Sharifan Subjects,
Rabbinic Texts: Moroccan Halakhic Writing, 1860-1918*, NYU 2014)
interesting. In one of the chapters, he discusses the Battle of the Three
Kings (al-Qasr al-Kabir) from a Jewish Maghribi perspective. He focuses on
Jewish sources from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but he
consulted sources in Arabic as well.

Best,

Guy Burak
The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library,
New York University
70 Washington Square South (room 1M-05A)
New York, NY 10012
E-mail: guy.burak at nyu.edu
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Liz Lee Spragins <spragins at stanford.edu>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I’m a PhD student at Stanford University working with Alexander Key on a
> dissertation on Portuguese and Arabic sources about the 1578 battle at
> al-Qasr al-Kabir. While I have a good sense of the historiographical
> tradition of the European end of things, I’ve been working to get up to
> speed on classical Arabic literary conventions surrounding the writing of
> history. Much of the most widely cited scholarship about Islamic
> historiography (e.g., Duri, Hodgson, Humphreys, related EI2 articles,
> Rosenthal) seems to deal almost exclusively with a much earlier period
> (9th-10th centuries, A.D.) than the one I’m interested in (16th & 17th
> centuries, A.D.), and with historians writing from major urban centers in
> the eastern part of the Islamic world. I’ve found one or two sources that
> mention the Maghrib in passing, mostly to say that any history that was
> written there was derivative of whatever was being produced in the East, if
> with a different geographic focus. I was hoping that someone on this
> listserve might have suggestions as to bibliography that deals more
> directly with Maghribi historiography, especially that from the late
> medieval period. I'm seeking to contextualize within their intellectual
> environment the three primary texts with which I am working: an anonymous
> chronicle of the Sa'did dynasty, al-Ifrani's Nozhat al-Hadi, and
> al-Fishtali's Manahil al-Safa.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help!
>
> Best wishes,
> Elizabeth
> --
> Elizabeth Spragins
> PhD Candidate
> Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
> Stanford University
> Stanford, CA 94305
>
>
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