A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods

Amar S. Baadj, Ph.D. (2012), University of Toronto, is a post-doctoral researcher at Trier University. His research focuses on medieval North Africa and Arabic historiography. Among his publications is Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya: The Contest for North Africa (12th and 13th centuries), (Brill, 2015). Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan.

English Preface

المقدمة

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors



Part 1: The Study of the Ancient World

1 Assyriologie in Irak: Ein kurzer Überblick

 Laith M. Hussein



2 Egyptian Egyptology, from Its Birth in the Late Nineteenth Century until the Early 2000s: The Founding Generations

 Fayza Haikal and Amr Omar



3 Historiography of Pre-Islamic Arabia: Arab Scholars and Their Contributions to the Writing of the History of Ancient Yemen

 Mohammed Maraqten



4 Contributions des chercheurs marocains dans l’enseignement de l’histoire ancienne

 Sidi Mohammed Alaioud



5 Les sciences de l’antiquité en l’Algérie : bilan et perspectives

 Youcef Aibeche



6 Receptions of Classical Antiquity in Egypt and the Arab World: Parallel Narratives, Invisible Corpora and a Troubled Archive

 Usama Gad



Part 2: The Study of the Middle Ages

7 The Study of Byzantine History in Egypt (1945–2017)

 Abdelaziz Ramadan



8 Hichem Djaït, maître d’une école historique pour l’étude de l’Islam

 Khaled Kchir



9 The Umayyads in Contemporary Arabic Historical Writing

 Abdulhadi Alajmi



10 Historical Writing in Modern Iraq: Personalities and Trends

 Nasir al-Kaabi



11 L’histoire sociale et économique médiévale de Al-Maġrib et Al-Andalus chez les chercheurs arabes

 Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich et Azeddine Guessous



12 Les travaux d’histoire médiévale dans les universités algériennes: bilan et tendances actuelles

 Allaoua Amara



13 Mamluk Studies in the Arab World

 Emad Abou-Ghazi



14 Modern Egyptian Arabic Scholarship on Mamluk Arts and Architecture (1250–1517)

 Hani Hamza



15 Les études académiques arabes en histoire concernant « les relations Maghreb-Machreq » au Moyen Âge

 Lotfi Ben Miled



16 Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on Medieval Europe: A Bibliographical Study

 Al-Amin Abouseada



Index