Chase F Robinson je popredný profesor a prodekan Graduate Center na City University of New York, špecializujúci sa na ranú islamskú históriu a historiografiu. Jeho práca sa ponára do formovania islamského sveta a skúma jeho historický vývoj od šiesteho do jedenásteho storočia. Robinsonov prístup zdôrazňuje zložitosť a nuansy historického rozprávania, čo čitateľom ponúka hlbšie pochopenie kľúčového obdobia v islamských dejinách.
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