Mamluk Historiography Revisited - Narratological Perspectives

This volume discusses Mamluk historical texts with an emphasis on literary/stylistic analysis, basically ignoring issues of ''factuality'' versus ''fictivity''. None of the authors set out to write ''fiction''; nor would their audience have received their accounts as such. The events depicted were a matter of historical record; but their meaning was geared both to contemporary and to general conce...