Local historiography of Jerusalem

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

Ameneh  bagheri ¹ (Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2021-09-18 Accepted : 2022-12-12 Published : 2022-02-20

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Abstract :

This article examines the course of local historiography related to the city of Bait-ul-Maqdis in the middle Islamic period (3rd to 9th centuries of Hijri). In general, local historiography in Syria began in the third century of the Hijri and in the form of "Sahaba Nargi" (the description of the companions). The emergence of local governments and the occurrence of crusades had a significant impact on the growth and expansion of the local histories of the Levant. By examining the form and content of the local chronicles of Sham, they can be classified into three types of chronicles, biographies and virtue letters. Generally, the books and works that have been written in relation to Jerusalem are classified in the field of virtue writing. In the field of dictionaries, it seems that an independent book has not been written in the field of famous names of Jerusalem. In the form of chronicles, most of the events related to Jerusalem are mentioned under the chronicles of Damascus and Syria. Among them are works such as the following book on the history of Damascus by Ibn Qalansi and the book Baghiya al-Talab fi Tarikh al-Haleb by Ibn Adeem.