Chase F Robinson is een vooraanstaand professor en proost aan de Graduate Center van The City University of New York, gespecialiseerd in vroege islamitische geschiedenis en historiografie. Zijn werk duikt in de vorming van de islamitische wereld en onderzoekt de historische ontwikkeling ervan van de zesde tot de elfde eeuw. Robinson's benadering benadrukt de complexiteit en nuance van historische verhalen, waardoor lezers een dieper inzicht krijgen in een cruciale periode van de islamitische geschiedenis.
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