Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications
- Preface
- 1 The Origin of Key Shi‘ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History
- 2 Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties
- 3 Al-Tha‘alibi's Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes
- 4 Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience
- 5 Saladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses
- 6 The Coming of Islam to Bukhara
- 7 A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination
- 8 The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia
- 9 Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan
- 10 Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources
- 11 Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran
- 12 Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind
- 13 Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-‘Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina
- 14 On Sunni Sectarianism
- 15 The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution
- 16 Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic Discourse
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
8 - The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications
- Preface
- 1 The Origin of Key Shi‘ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History
- 2 Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties
- 3 Al-Tha‘alibi's Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes
- 4 Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience
- 5 Saladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses
- 6 The Coming of Islam to Bukhara
- 7 A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination
- 8 The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia
- 9 Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan
- 10 Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources
- 11 Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran
- 12 Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind
- 13 Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-‘Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina
- 14 On Sunni Sectarianism
- 15 The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution
- 16 Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic Discourse
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
In 1968, C. Cahen, a Western pioneer in the study of the Seljuks of Anatolia or Rum, published Pre-Ottoman Turkey, a provisional history of that subject to which he appended an extensive bibliographical survey. In 1988, he published a somewhat revised and reorganised French version entitled La Turquie Pré-Ottomane, in which the bibliography was also revised and reorganised. In the bibliography of the French book, but not in the original English, Cahen included Histoire des Patriarches d'Alexandrie (Paris/Alexandria, 1943–74) – or, as it is called in the combined Arabic edition and English translation, The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church – in the section on primary Arabic and Persian sources. As far as I know, this work is not included in the bibliography for any other monograph on the Seljuks of Anatolia. Nor does the History of the Patriarchs appear in any strictly bibliographical compilation. Why, therefore, did Cahen mention it as a primary source? Does it in fact shed light on the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia? Has it been overlooked, or is Cahen's reference an oversight? In this contribution we shall answer these questions.
The History of the Patriarchs (hereinafter cited as the History) is the most important source for the history of the Coptic Church of Egypt. It consists of extensive biographies of most of the patriarchs of the Church from the first century to 1243.
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- Living Islamic HistoryStudies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand, pp. 107 - 128Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2010