Middle East & Islamic Studies Resources

Bibliographies

Brockelmann, Carl.

Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur.
Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1902.
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room PJ7510 .B7 1898 Check availability @ Duke
Annotated repertory of Arabic mansucripts, arranged by author and organized in a generally chronological order. For each author we are given a capsule biography, a short list of references for his life, and a bibliography of both his manuscript and printed editions.
Contents: 1. bd. Einleitung. Quellen und frühere darstellungen. 1. Buch. Die arabishe Nationallitteratur. 2. Buch. Die islâmische Litteratur in arabischer Sprache. 1898.--2. bd. 3. Buch. Der Niedergang der islâmischen Litteratur. 1902.

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.

Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland.
Wiesbaden, F. Steiner, 1961-
Perkins/Bostock Library Stacks Z6605.O7 V479 Check availability @ Duke
Bd. XII. Türkische Handschriften (5 Teile)
Bd. XIV. Persische Handschriften (2 Teile)
Bd. XVII, Reihe A. Materialien zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte (2 Teile)
Bd. XVII, Reihe B. Arabische Handschriften (1 Teil)

Grimwood-Jones, Diana.

Arab-Islamic bibliography.
Hassocks, England : Harvester Press, 1977.
Divinity School Library 016.90904 A658, 1977 Check availability @ Duke
Outlines the reference tools, sources, and main centers of study for the Islamic Middle East

Sezgin, Fuat.

Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1967-
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room DS36.85 .S494 1967 Check availability @ Duke
This works presents a broad survey of Arabic manuscripts and provides a rich philological and historical commentary for each of the fields covered down to AH 430/AD 1040.
Contents: Bd. 1. Qurʾānwissenschaften, Hadīth Geschichte, Fiqh, Dogmatik, Mystik bis ca. 430 H.--Bd. 2. Poesie bis ca. 430 H.--Bd. 3. Medizin, Pharmazie, Zoologie, Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.--Bd. 4. Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430 H.--Bd. 5. Mathematik bis ca. 430 H.--Bd. 6. Astronomie bis ca. 430 H.--Bd. 7. Astrologie, Meteorologie und Verwandtes bis ca. 430 H.--Bd. 8. Lexikographie bis 430 H.--Bd. 9. Grammatik bis ca. 430 H.

Skreslet, Paula Youngman.

The literature of Islam : a guide to the primary sources in English translation .
Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, Inc. : American Theological Library Association, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room Z7835.M6 S585 2006 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: The Qur'an: text and translation -- The traditions: Hadith -- Exegesis of the Qur'an: tafsir -- Law and legal theory: shari'a and fiqh -- History and historiography: ta'rikh -- Philosophy: falsafa -- Theology: kalam -- Spirituality and mysticism: tasawwuf -- Appendix: anthologies.

Historiography

Amhazun, Muhammad.

Tahqiq mawaqif al-sahabah fi al-fitnah : min riwayat al-Imam al-Tabari wa-al-muhaddithin.
تحقيق مواقف الصحابة في الفتنة : من روايات الإمام الطبرى والمحدثين
al-Qahirah : Dar Tibah : Dar al-Salam, 2005.
Divinity School Library DS38.2.T33 A44 2005 Check availability @ Duke

Choueiri, Youssef M.

Modern Arab historiography : historical discourse and the nation-state.
London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS37.4 .C46 2003 Check availability @ Duke

Donner, Fred McGraw.

Narratives of Islamic origins : the beginnings of Islamic historical writing.
Princeton, N.J. : Darwin Press, 1998.
Divinity School Library DS38.16 .D66 1998 Check availability @ Duke

Duri, Abd al-Aziz.

Awraq fi al-tarikh wa-al-hadarah.
‫ أوراق في التاريخ والحضارة
Bayrut : Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, 2007.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS38.16 .D87 2007 v.1-v.4 Check availability @ Duke
Notes: al-Juz 1. Awraq fi ilm al-tarikh = Papers on Arab historiography -- al-juz 2. Awraq fi al-tarikh al-iqtisadi = Papers on economic history -- al-juz 3. Awraq fi al-tarikh al-Arabi al-Islami = Papers on Arab history -- al-juz 4. Awraq fi al-fikr wa-al-thaqafah = Papers on Arabic culture.

Duri, Abd al-Aziz.

The rise of historical writing among the Arabs.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1983.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS38.16 .D8713 1983 Check availability @ Duke

Faruqi, Nisar Ahmad.

Early Muslim historiography : a study of early transmitters of Arab history from the rise of Islam up to the end of Umayyad period, 612-750 A.D.
Delhi : Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1979.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS38.16 .F37 1979 Check availability @ Duke

Gershoni, Israel et al.

Middle East historiographies : narrating the Twentieth Century.
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS61.6 .M534 2006 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: Pt. 1 The state of the art. Introduction / Israel Gershoni and Amy Singer -- The historiography of the modern Middle East: transforming a field of study / R. Stephen Humphreys -- Pt. 2. Colonialism and nationalism. The historiography of World War I and the emergence of the contemporary Middle East / Charles D. Smith -- Twentieth-century historians and historiography of the Middle East: women, gender, and empire / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Reading genocide: Turkish historiography on the Armenian deportations and massacres of 1915 / Fatma Müge Göçek -- Pt. 3. Narratives of crisis. The theory of crisis and the crisis in a theory: intellectual history in twentieth-century Middle Eastern studies / Israel Gershoni -- The historiography of crisis in the Egyptian political economy / Ellis Goldberg -- Pt. 4. Emerging voices. On gender, history, . . . and fiction / Marilyn Booth -- Will that subaltern ever speak? Finding African slaves in the historiography of the Middle East / Eve M. Troutt Powell -- Muslim religious extremism in Egypt: a historiographical critique of narratives / Juan R. I. Cole -- Audiovisual media and history of the Arab Middle East / Walter Armbrust.

Haridi, Alexander.

Das Paradigma der "islamischen Zivilisation" - oder, Die Begründung der deutschen Islamwissenschaft durch Carl Heinrich Becker (1876-1933) : eine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Untersuchung.
Würzburg : Ergon, c2005.
Divinity School Library BP49.5.B43 H353 2005 Check availability @ Duke

Hirschler, Konrad.

Medieval Arabic historiography : authors as actors.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS37.4 .H38 2006 Check availability @ Duke

Iggers, Georg G.

A global history of modern historiography.
Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2008.
Perkins/Bostock Library D13 .I34 2008 Check availability @ Duke
Contents:
... * The Middle East (p. 32) * The rise of Islam and the origin of Muslim historiography (p. 33) * Main styles in Muslim historiography (p. 35) * The bureaucratization and secularization of historiography (p. 36) * The decline of the Muslim world and Muslim historiography? (p. 37) * ... * Nationalism and the transformation of Muslim historiography (p. 82) * The Muslim 'discovery' of Europe (p. 82) * Whose pharaohs? - (re)writing the history of Egypt (p. 87) * National identity and historical writing (p. 91) * Bridging the old and the new: the 'encyclopedists' and the 'neo-chroniclers' (p. 95) * Nationalism and the transformation of Indian historiography (p. 97) * Historiography during early colonialism (p. 97) * The new pedagogy and the emergence of a modern historical consciousness (p. 100) * Religious revivalism and the search for a glorious past (p. 101) * The birth of the rationalist paradigm (p. 104) * The birth of the nationalist paradigm (p. 105) * Nationalism, communalism and historical writing (p. 107) * Secular narratives and the emergence of economic nationalism (p. 108) ... 5. The appeal of nationalist history around the world: historical studies in the Middle East and Asia in the twentieth century (p. 194) * Ottomanism, Turkism and Egyptianization: nationalist history in the Middle East (p. 194) * The rise of modern education (p. 194) * Writing Turkish history in/for modern Turkey (p. 197) * The Egyptianization of historical writing (p. 201) * Academic history and national politics (p. 207) * Nationalism, scientism, and Marxism: modern historiography in East and South East Asia (p. 208)  ...  * Nationalist historiography in modern India (p. 227) * Late nineteenth-century antecedents: romantic nationalism (p. 227) * The role of religion in nationalist historiography (p. 230) * The nation as history and history as science (p. 232) * The romance of the local and the emergence of alternative narratives (p. 234) * The nation re-imagined: the Nehruvian synthesis (p. 237) * Post-independence historiography: old and new trajectories (p. 238) * Towards a social science history (p. 241)  ...  * Postcolonialism (p. 281) * The Subaltern Studies (p. 284)  ... 7. The rise of Islamism and the ebb of Marxism: historical writings in late twentieth-century Asia and the Middle East (p. 317) * The ebb and flow of Marxist historiography in East and South East Asia (p. 317)  ...  * Islamism and Islamic historiography: the Cold War and beyond (p. 337) * Globalizing Islamic historiography (p. 337) * The interplay of history and historiography (p. 339) * Edward Said and the critique of Orientalism (p. 342) * The appeal of Marxism and socialism (p. 344) * The Islamic revival: Islamism and nationalism (p. 348) * History and politics: the challenges to nationalist historiography (p. 351) * 8. Historiography after the Cold War, 1990-2007: a critical retrospect (p. 364) * The globalization of the world (p. 364) * The reorientation of historical studies (p. 367) * The cultural and the linguistic turn (p. 368) * Feminist and gender history (p. 371) * Redefining the alliance between history and the social sciences (p. 375) * New challenges to nationalist history (p. 380) * World history, global History and history of globalization (p. 387) * Glossary (p. 402) * Further reading (p. 410) * Index (p. 425)

Khalidi, Tarif.

Arabic historical thought in the classical period.
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS38.16 .K445 1994 Check availability @ Duke
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Lockman, Zachary.

Workers and working classes in the Middle East : struggles, histories, historiographies.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.
Perkins/Bostock Library 305.5620956 W926, 1994 Check availability @ Duke
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Noth, Albrecht.

The early Arabic historical tradition : a source-critical study.
Princeton, N.J. : Darwin Press, 1994.
Divinity School Library DS38.16 .N67213 1994 Check availability @ Duke

Robinson, Chase F.

Islamic historiography.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Divinity School Library 297.0722 R658, I82, 2003 Check availability @ Duke
Contents: Part I. Origins and Categories: 1. Origins 2. The emergence of genre 3. Consequences and models 4. Three categories: biography, prosopography, chronography Part II. Contexts: 5. Historiography and traditionalism 6. Historiography and society 7. God and models of history 8. Historians and the truth Part III. How Historians Worked: 9. Vocations and professions 10. Writing history Conclusion.

Rosenthal, Franz, 1914-2003.

A history of Muslim historiography.
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1952.
Library Service Center D198.2 .R67 1952 LSC Check availability @ Duke

Shaykh, Abd al-Rahman Abd Allah.

Ilm al-tarikh inda al-Muslimin.
علم التاريخ عند المسلمين
Misr al-Jadidah, al-Qahirah : al-Maktab al-Arabi lil-Maarif, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS37.7 .S53 2006 Check availability @ Duke

History of Islam - General Works

Endress, Gerhard.

Islam : an historical introduction.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS35.6 .E5313 2002 Check availability @ Duke

Esposito, John L.

The Oxford history of Islam.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.
Divinity School LibraryQuarto | 297.09 O98 1999 Check availability @ Duke

Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P.

Islam : an illustrated history.
New York : Continuum, 2006.
Perkins/Bostock Library International & Area Studies Reading Room DS35.63 .F74 2006 Check availability @ Duke
"Revised and expanded edition of Historical atlas of Islam"

Fattah, Hala Mundhir.

A brief history of Iraq.
New York : Facts On File, c2009.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS70.9 .F38 2009
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Gardner, Robert.

Islam, empire of faith.
Alexandria, VA : PBS DVD ; Burbank, CA : distributed by Warner Home Video, 2001.
Lilly Library A-V DVD 389 Check availability @ Duke
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Jenkins, Everett.

The Muslim diaspora : a comprehensive reference to the spread of Islam in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1999-
Divinity School Library Quarto BP50 .J46 1999 Check availability @ Duke

Lapidus, Ira M.

A history of Islamic societies.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Perkins/Bostock Library DS35.63 .L37 2002 Check availability @ Duke
Ira Lapidus explores the origins and evolution of Muslim societies. The book, now revised and updated, is divided into three parts. The first covers the formative era of Islamic civilization. The second traces the diffusion of worldwide Islamic societies, while the third explores their reaction to European imperialism, and emergence as independent states. The concluding chapters consider Islam's recent history, the formation of Islamic revival movements and global Islamic identities. The book is essential reading for students and for those seeking to understand the Muslim peoples.

Schimmel, Annemarie.

Islam : an introduction.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992.
Divinity School Library BP55 .S3413 1992 Check availability @ Duke