Islamic historiography
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Islamic historiography is the tradition of recording, analyzing, and interpreting the history of Islamic societies, institutions, and figures from the early Islamic period to the modern era.
Observed surface forms (1)
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| IslamicGenealogicalTraditions | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Islamic studies subfield
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branch of historical writing ⓘ historiographical tradition ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Prophetic biography traditions
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Qurʾanic narrative traditions ⓘ hadith transmission practices ⓘ |
| hasEarlyCenter |
Basra
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Kufa NERFINISHED ⓘ Medina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasImportantCenter |
Baghdad
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Cairo NERFINISHED ⓘ Cordoba NERFINISHED ⓘ Damascus NERFINISHED ⓘ Delhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Isfahan NERFINISHED ⓘ Istanbul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
Ottoman historical writing
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Persianate historical traditions ⓘ global historiography ⓘ medieval Christian historiography ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure |
Ibn Isḥāq
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Ibn Kathīr NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibn Khaldūn NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibn Saʿd NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibn al-Athīr NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibn ʿAsākir NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Balādhurī NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Dhahabī NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Masʿūdī NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Suyūṭī NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Wāqidī NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Yaʿqūbī NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Ṭabarī NERFINISHED ⓘ modern academic historians of Islam ⓘ |
| hasKeyGenre |
annalistic chronicles
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apologetic histories ⓘ biographical dictionaries (ṭabaqāt) ⓘ court chronicles ⓘ dynastic histories ⓘ local histories ⓘ modern academic histories ⓘ prosopographical works ⓘ regional histories ⓘ religious polemical histories ⓘ universal histories ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Arabic
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Ottoman Turkish NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian ⓘ Urdu NERFINISHED ⓘ various regional Islamic languages ⓘ |
| hasMainSubject |
history of Islamic figures
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history of Islamic institutions ⓘ history of Islamic societies ⓘ |
| hasMethodologicalFeature |
combination of religious and political narrative
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integration of biography and history ⓘ interweaving of legend and historical report ⓘ later adoption of European critical methods ⓘ moral and didactic framing of events ⓘ selective citation of earlier authorities ⓘ use of isnād chains for reports ⓘ use of universal chronological frameworks ⓘ |
| hasNormativeGoal |
interpretation of divine providence in history
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legitimation of political authority ⓘ preservation of communal memory ⓘ transmission of religious exempla ⓘ |
| hasTemporalScope |
early Islamic period
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early modern period ⓘ medieval Islamic period ⓘ modern era ⓘ |
| isInfluencedBy |
Islamic law
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Islamic political thought ⓘ Islamic theology ⓘ regional cultural traditions ⓘ |
| studiesEventType |
Islamic conquests
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early caliphate ⓘ formation of Islamic sects and schools ⓘ interactions between Islamic and non-Islamic polities ⓘ life of the Prophet Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ rise and fall of dynasties ⓘ social and economic developments in Muslim societies ⓘ |
| usesSourceType |
Qurʾan
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administrative documents ⓘ biographical dictionaries ⓘ chronicles ⓘ genealogical works ⓘ geographical works ⓘ hadith collections ⓘ legal texts ⓘ maghāzī literature ⓘ sīra literature ⓘ travel accounts ⓘ |
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IslamicGenealogicalTraditions