Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Prologue: The Publication of the Dār al-Fikr Edition of Ibn ʿAsākir’s Ta ʾrīkh madīnat Dimashq

Nostalgia for the Future: A Comparison between the Introductions to Ibn ʿAsākir’s Ta ʾrīkh madīnat Dimashq and al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī’s Ta ʾrīkh Baghdād

Ibn ʿAsākir’s Children: Monumental Representations of Damascus until the 12th/18th Century

Sunni Jihād Propaganda in Seventh/Thirteenth-Century Damascus: An Analysis of the Colophons (Samāʿāt) on Ibn ʿAsākir’s Forty Ḥadīths for Inciting Jihād

Female Presence in Biographical Dictionaries: Ibn ʿAsākir’s Selection Criteria for Women in his Ta ʾrīkh madīnat Dimashq

Ibn ʿAsākir’s Peculiar Biography of Khālid al-Qasrī

Ibn ʿAsākirʼs Virtual Library as Reflected in his Ta ʾrīkh madīnat Dimashq

Appendix 1: Biographical Works Used by Ibn ʿAsākir in His TMD and their Riwāyas (in Alphabetical Order)

Appendix 2: Unknown Biographical Works Used by Ibn ʿAsākir (in Alphabetical Order)

General Index