[Andalusi Studies] Maghribi historiography help

[Davila, Carl]

Hello Liz,

Have you looked at The Maghrib in Question: Essays in History and Historiography, edited by Michel Le Gall and Kenneth Perkins? There is an interesting article by Mounir Chapoutot-Remadi, "Thirty Years of Research on the History of the Medieval Maghrib" which has quite a few references that may be of use to you.

Fernando Mediano's article, "L'élite savant andalouse à Fes" in Zwartjes, van Gelder and de Moor eds. Poetry, Politics and Polemics (Brill) and La vie intellectuelle marocaine sous les Mérinites et les Waṭṭāsides by Mohamed B.A. Benchekroun (Impremerie Mohamed V, Rabat 1974), together might give you some insights into the general intellectual milieu of the time.

Happy hunting!

Dr. Carl Davila
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Subject: [Andalusi Studies] Maghribi historiography help

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
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Elizabeth Spragins
PhD Candidate
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305


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