Universal historiography and millenarian kingship in late medieval Egypt and Syria: the third reign of al-Nasir Muhammad and the discourse of history Ghent University
This project investigates a corpus of historiographical texts, predominantely universal chronicles, composed by four historians closely related to the court of the Mamluk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad: Baybars al-Manṣūrī, al-Nuwayrī, Ibn al-Dawādārī, and Abū l-Fidāʾ (death dates between 1325-40). It argues that these texts attest to a specific discourse of history that went well beyond formulations of legitimisation and sultanic hegemony. These ...