Islamic Historiography as Polemic Literature: Deconstructing Biographies of Medieval Jewish Converts.
This article considers biographical material on Jewish converts authored by Muslim historians, primarily in Mamluk Egypt and Syria from the 13th to 15th centuries, enumerating and analyzing its recurring themes. Among its key findings is that the motifs found in this material are consonant with Isla...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 54; no. 1/2; pp. 129 - 158 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2023
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