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The #islamicate historiographies
​reading list

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Adam Silverstein, Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2010)

Debating Pasts, Crafting Histories - Foundation course in research and methods
Evans, R.J., In defence of history (2000)
Tosh, J., The pursuit of history (2002)
Burke, P. (ed.), New perspectives on historical writing (2001)
Bentley, M. (ed.), Companion to historiography (1997)
Cooper, F. & Stoler, A. (eds.), Tensions of empire (1997)

The Origin of Islam: Sources and Perspectives
Berg, H. (ed.), Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins (Leiden, 2003)

Crone, Patricia and Cook, Michael, Hagarism: The making of the Islamic World (Cambridge, 1977)
Donner, Fred, Narratives of Islamic origins (Princeton, 1998)
Hawting, G.R., The idea of idolatry and the emergence of Islam (Cambridge, 1999)
Hodgson, M.G.S., The Venture of Islam (Chicago/London, 1974)
Hoyland, Robert, Seeing Islam as others saw it (Princeton, 1997)
Humphreys, R. Stephen, Islamic History: a framework for enquiry (Princeton, 1991)
Martin, Richard (ed.), Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies (Tucson, AZ, 1985)
Robinson, Chase, Islamic Historiography (Cambridge, 2003)

The Early Development of Islam: Emerging Identities and Contending View
Patricia Crone, Medieval Islamic Political Thought (Edinburgh/NY 2004)
Michael Cook, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (Cambridge, 2000)
Michael Cook, Early Muslim Dogma : A Source-Critical Study (Cambridge, 1981)
Ignaz Goldziher, Muslim Studies, 2 vols., tr. by C. R. Barber and S. M. Stern, London 1971.
G. H. A. Juynboll (ed.), Studies on the First Century of Islamic Society (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1982)
Ethan Kohlberg (ed.), Shi‘ism (Ashgate, 2003)
Christopher Melchert, The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th century CE, (Leiden 1997)
A. Rippin, Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, new edition (London, 2005)
Joseph Schacht, Introduction to Islamic Law (Oxford, 1964)
Julius Wellhausen, The Religio-Political Factions in Early Islam (Berlin 1901), translated from the German by R. C. Ostle and S. M. Walzer (Amsterdam, 1975)

Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle East I
Abrahamian, Ervand  Iran between the Two Revolutions, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1982.
Afary, Janet, The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911. Grassroot Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Feminism, Columbia University Press, New York, 1996.
Atabaki, T./ Zurcher, E. J.  Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernisers under Atatürk and Reza Shah , London, IB Tauris, 2003.
Bayly, Christopher, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, Blackwell, Oxford, 2004.
Black, Carl. E/Brown, C., Modernisation in the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire and Its Afro-Asian Successors, Darwin, Princeton, 1992.
Blue, G./Bunton, M./Croizier, R. (eds), Colonialism and the Modern World: Selected Studies, Sharpe, London, 2002.
Beinin, Joel, Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.
Chatterjee, Partha, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, OUP, Delhi, 1994.
Cole, Juan R.I. Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East. Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt’s ‘Urabi Movement, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993.
Cooper, Fredrick, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge and History, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005.
Crone, Patricia, Pre-Industrial Societies, Blackwell, Oxford, 1989.
Dodge, Toby, Inventing Iraq: the Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied, Hurst, London, 2003.
Gellner, Ernest, Nations and Nationalism, Verso, Oxford, 1993.
Hodgson, Marshall, The Venture of Islam. Conscience and History in a World Civilisation, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, various eds.
Hourani, A./Khoury, P./ Wilson, M. (eds),  The Modern Middle East, I.B. Tauris,  London, 1993.
Lockman, Zachary, Contending Visions of the Middle East. The History and Politics of Orientalism Cambridge, CUP, 2004.
Martin,Vanessa,  Islam and Modernism: the Iranian Revolution of 1906, Syracuse University Press, New York, 1989.
Mitchell, Timothy, Colonising Egypt, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.
Owen, Roger, Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.
Quataert, Donald, Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire, 1881-1908. Reactions to European Economic Penetration, New York University Press, New York, 1983.
Sluglett, Peter/Meouchy, Nadine (eds), Middle Eastern Mandates in Comparative Perspective, Brill, Leiden, 2004.
Watenpaugh, Keith D., Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism and the Arab Middle Class, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2006.

Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle East II
Anderson, B., Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London, various eds.)
Black, C. E., & Brown, C., Modernisation in the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire and Its Afro-Asian Successors (Princeton, 1992)
Crone, P., Pre-Industrial Societies (Oxford, 1989)
Gellner, E., Nations and Nationalism (Oxford,  2009)
Dawisha, A., Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth century (Princeton, 2003)
Hourani, A.,  Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939, (Cambridge, 1962)
Hourani, A., Khoury, P. & Wilson, M. (eds),  The Modern Middle East (London, 1993)
Jankowski, J. & Gershoni, I., Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East (New York, 1997)
Karpat, K., The Politicisation of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State and Community in the Late Ottoman State (Oxford, 2001)
Kasaba, R. & Bozdogan, S., Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (Seattle, 1997)
Lockman, Z., Contending Visions of the Middle East. The History and Politics of Orientalism (Cambridge, 2004)
Marashi, A., Nationalising Iran: Culture, Power and the State, 1870-1940 (Seattle, 2008)
Mekker, M. E., A Nation of Empire: the Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity (Chicago, 2002)
Reid, D. M., Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums and Egyptian National Identity (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2002)
Smith, A., The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford, 1998)

Reading Classical Arabic Historians: Themes and Trends in Islamic Historiography
Cooperson, M., Classical Arabic Biography (Cambridge, 2000)
Donner, F.M., Narratives of Islamic Origins (Princeton, 1998)
El-Hibri, T., Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography (Cambridge, 1999)
Lindsay, J. E. , Ibn Asakir and Early Islamic Hisoriography (Princeton, 2001)
Kennedy, H., The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates (London, 2004)
Khalidi, T., Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (Cambridge, 1994)
Hirschler, K., Medieval Arabic Historiography: authors as actors (London, 2006)
Noth, A., The Early Arabic Historical Tradition (Princeton, 1994)
Robinson, C., Islamic Histoiography (Cambridge, 2003)



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