[Andalusi Studies] Maghribi historiography help

[Justin K Stearns]

Hi Elizabeth,

while the following sources don't focus much on the literary conventions of
late medieval and early modern Maghribi historiography, or their rhetorical
strategies, they do give important background and context:

Levi-Provencal,  Les historiens des Chorfas
Muhammad Hajji, al-Haraka al-fikriyya bi-l-Maghrib fi 'ahd al-sa'adiyyin (2
vols.) (original his dissertation in French)
Stephen Cory, Reviving the Islamic Caliphate in Early Modern Morocco
Mouline, Le caliphate imaginaire d'Ahmed al-Mansour
Mercedes Garcia Arenal, Ahmad al-Mansur (and her many more detailed
articles cited in the Oneworld book)

For a little later:

Lakhdar, La vie littéraire ay maroc sous la dynastie 'Alawite
Berque, Ulémas, fondateurs, insurgés du Maghreb

best,

Justin

Justin Stearns
Associate Professor
Arab Crossroads Studies
Head of Arab Crossroads Studies Program
NYU-Abu Dhabi

http://nyuad.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/justin-stearns.html
http://nyuad.academia.edu/JustinStearns

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:59 AM, 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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