Lives of Frankish princes from al-Ṣafadī’s biographical dictionary, al - wāfī bil - wafayāt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12215581 |
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| Authors | Wael Abu-ʿuksa (0000-0002-9812-3425, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-104 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mediterranean Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-8967 • E-ISSN: 1743-940X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09518967.2017.1314918 |
| OpenAlex | W2743361236 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article endeavours to bring to the English reader unpublished historical sources about Frankish figuers in the fourteenth century biographical dictionary al-Wāfī bil-wafayāt. This work, one of the largest biographical dictionaries in the history of the genre in Arabic, was written by Khalīl b. Aibak Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn, al-Ṣafadī who was born in 1297 to a Mamluk father and a respected amir of the Mamluk military troops in Ṣafad. This article analyse nine biographies of Frankish historical figures and endeavours to answer the question: how original were al-Ṣafadī’s biographies on Frankish princes
Ancient history · Arabic · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Mamluk · Classics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Islamic Studies and History · Medieval History and Crusades · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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