初期イスラーム世界における普遍主義と地域主義 Universalism and Regionalism in the Early Islamic World : The Beginnings of Local History-Writing (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

Munt, Harry

Cambridge University Press（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009648264
• DDC分類 907.2

Full Description

What was the role of local history-writing in the early Islamic World, and why was it such a popular way of thinking about the past? In this innovative study, Harry Munt explores this understudied phenomenon. Examining primary sources in both Arabic and Persian, Munt argues that local history-writing must be situated within its appropriate historical contexts to explain why it was such a popular way of thinking about the past, more popular than most other contemporary forms of history-writing. The period until the end of the eleventh century CE saw many significant developments in ideas about community, about elite groups and about social authority. This study demonstrates how local history-writing played a key role in these developments, forming part of the way that Muslim scholars negotiated the dialogues between more universalist and more particularist approaches to the understanding of communities. Munt further demonstrates that local historians were participating in debates that ranged into disciplines far beyond history-writing.

Contents

Introduction; Part I: 1. Scholarly communities and the social value of knowledge; 2. Writing and the authorship of books; 3. Universalism and particularism in the early Islamic world; Part II: 4. Universal history-writing; 5. What is a local history?; 6. Local history as a genre; Part III: 7. Why write local history?; 8. Idealised communities: narratives and representations; Conclusion; Bibliography; Indices.