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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction -- The Significance of Local History-Writing -- Periodisation (and Some Other Caveats) -- Part I -- 1 Scholarly Communities and the Social Value of Knowledge -- Scholarly Communities -- The Social Authority of the ʿUlamāʼ -- Other Literary Communities -- 2 Writing and the Authorship of Books -- Written and Oral Transmission in the Early Islamic Centuries -- The Composition and Transmission of Local Histories -- 3 Universalism and Particularism in the Early Islamic World -- Universalism and Particularism in Theology, Law and Politics -- Universalising and Regionalising Communities -- Part II -- 4 Universal History-Writing -- What Is a Universal History? -- Contexts and Purposes of Universal History-Writing -- Universal History in Other Forms of History-Writing -- 5 What Is a Local History? -- The Development of Local History-Writing and the Four 'Models' -- Wider Conclusions -- 6 Local History as a Genre -- History in the Classification of the Sciences -- Local Historians -- Readers' Reactions -- Conclusions -- Part III -- 7 Why Write Local History? -- Local Historians' Own Explicit Reasons -- Local Pride or Patriotism -- Political Regionalism and the ʿUlamāʼ -- Conversion and Urbanisation -- The Medinan Challenge? -- Conclusion -- 8 Idealised Communities: Narratives and Representations -- The Meanings of Local Topography -- Non-Muslim and Pre-Islamic Local History -- Master Narratives -- Some Final Thoughts -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indices.
An innovative exploration of the understudied phenomenon of local history-writing in the early Islamic World. Harry Munt situates local history-writing within its historical contexts, examining how Muslim scholars used this genre to think about their local community's place within a larger, more universal Muslim community.