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Authored Books

Hirschler, Konrad (2016) Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library. The Ashrafīya Library Catalogue. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture)

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Hirschler, Konrad (2006) Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors. London: Routledge.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Hirschler, Konrad, ed. (2013) M. A. Köhler: Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers in the Middle East. Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in the Period of the Crusades, tr. P.M. Holt. Leiden: Brill. (The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades)

Görke, Andreas and Hirschler, Konrad, eds. (2011) Manuscript Notes as Documentary Sources. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag. (Beiruter Texte und Studien 129)

Messner, A. and Hirschler, Konrad, eds. (2006) Heilige Orte in Asien. Räume göttlicher Macht und menschlicher Verehrung (Sacred Places in Asia). Schenefeld (Hamburg): EB-Verlag.

Book Chapters

Hirschler, Konrad (2016) 'Historiographie.' In: Brunner, Rainer, (ed.), Islam: Einheit und Vielfalt einer Weltreligion. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, pp. 338-348.

Hirschler, Konrad (2014) 'Ibn Wāsil: An Ayyubid Perspective on Frankish Lordships and Crusades.' In: Mallett, Alex, (ed.), Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant. Leiden: Brill, pp. 136-160. (The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades, Volume: 2)

Hirschler, Konrad (2013) 'Studying Mamluk Historiography – From Source-Criticism to the Cultural Turn.' In: Conermann, Stephan, (ed.), Ubi sumus? Quo vademus? Mamluk Studies – State of the Art. Gottingen: Bonn University Press, pp. 159-186.

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) 'Islam: The Arabic and Persian Traditions, Eleventh-Fifteenth Centuries.' In: Foot, Sarah and Robinson, Chase, (eds.), The Oxford History of Historical Writing, vol. 2: 400-1400. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 267-286.

Görke, Andreas and Hirschler, Konrad (2011) 'Introduction: Manuscript notes as documentary sources.' In: Görke, Andreas and Hirschler, Konrad, (eds.), Manuscript Notes as Documentary Sources. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, pp. 9-20. (Beiruter Texte und Studien 129)

Hirschler, Konrad (2011) 'Reading Certificates (samā’āt) as a Prosopographical Source: Cultural and Social Practices of an Elite Family in Zangid and Ayyubid Damascus.' In: Görke, Andreas and Hirschler, Konrad, (eds.), Manuscript Notes as Documentary Sources. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, pp. 73-92. (Beiruter Texte und Studien 129)

Hirschler, Konrad (2011) 'Zeugenschaft und Wissenstradierung in islamisch geprägten Gesellschaften der post-formativen Periode.' In: Drews, W. and Schlie, H., (eds.), Zeugnis und Zeugenschaft: Perspektiven aus der Vormoderne. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, pp. 101-118. (Trajekte)

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Konformität und Randständigkeit: Bettler im vormodernen Nahen Osten (Conformity and Marginality: Beggars in the Pre-Modern Middle East).' In: Pistor-Hatam, Anja and Richter, Antje, (eds.), Bettler, Prostituierte, Paria: Randgruppen in asiatischen Gesellschaften. Hamburg: EB-Verlag, pp. 67-105. (Asien und Afrika (ZAAS) Kiel)

Hirschler, Konrad, Eilers, Kea and Clara, Seitz (2008) 'Religiousness Among Young Muslims in Germany.' In: al-Hamarneh, Ala and Thielmann, Jörn, (eds.), Islam and Muslims in Germany. Leiden: Brill, pp. 83-115. (Muslim Minorities, Volume: 7)

Hirschler, Konrad (2007) 'Riten der Gewalt: Protest und Aufruhr in Kairo und Damaskus (7./13. bis 10./16. Jahrhundert) (Rites of Violence: Violent Protests in Mamluk Cairo and Damascus).' In: Conermann, Stephan and von Hees, S., (eds.), Islamwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft; 1: Historische Anthropologie. Ansätze und Möglichkeiten. Schenefeld (Hamburg): EB-Verlag, pp. 205-233.

Hirschler, Konrad (2006) 'Umstrittene heilige Orte im sunnitischen Islam: Syrien und Ägypten im späten Mittelalter (Disputed Holy Places in Sunni Islam: Syria and Egypt during the Late Medieval Ages).' In: Messner, A. and Hirschler, Konrad, (eds.), Heilige Orte in Asien und Afrika : Räume göttlicher Macht und menschlicher Verehrung. Schenefeld (Hamburg): EB-Verlag, pp. 113-137.

Hirschler, Konrad (2005) 'Carl Friedrich Cramer und die „morgenländischen Sprachen“: Anmerkungen zu einem Orientalisten des 18. Jahrhunderts (Carl Friedrich Cramer and the Oriental Languages: Notes on an Eighteenth-Century Orientalist).' In: Schütt, R., (ed.), „Ein Mann von Feuer und Talenten“. Leben und Werk von Carl Friedrich Cramer. Göttingen: Wallstein, pp. 87-100.

Hirschler, Konrad (2005) 'Social Contexts of Medieval Arabic Historical Writing: Court Scholars Versus Ideal/Withdrawn Scholars – Ibn Wāsil and Abū Šāma.' In: Vermeulen, U. and Van Steenbergen, J., (eds.), Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras IV. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 311-331. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 140)

Journal Article

Hirschler, Konrad (2016) 'From Archive to Archival Practices. Rethinking the Preservation of Mamlūk Administrative Documents.' Journal of the American Oriental Society, 136 (1). pp. 1-28.

Hirschler, Konrad and Savant, Sarah (2014) 'Introduction - What Is in a Period? Arabic Historiography and Periodization.' Der Islam, 91 (1). pp. 6-19.

Hirschler, Konrad (2014) 'The Jerusalem Conquest of 492/1099 in the Medieval Arabic Historiography of the Crusades: From Regional Plurality to Islamic Narrative.' Crusades, 13. pp. 37-76.

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) ''Catching the Eel' – Documentary Evidence for Concepts of the Arabic Book in the Middle Period.' Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 12. pp. 224-234.

Hirschler, Konrad (2010) 'The 'Pharaoh' Anecdote in Pre-Modern Arabic Historiography.' Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 10. pp. 45-74.

Hirschler, Konrad and Huebner, Ulrich (2009) 'Zwei neue mamlukische Inschriften aus Abū Mahtūb nahe aš-Šawbak.' Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 125 (1). pp. 76-83.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Erdbebenberichte und Diskurse der Kontinuität in der postformativen Periode (Reports on Earthquakes and Discourses of Continuity in the Postformative Period).' Der Islam, 84 (1). pp. 103-139.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'The Formation of the Civilian Elite in the Syrian Province: The Case of Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Hamah.' Mamluk Studies Review, 12 (2). pp. 95-132.

Hirschler, Konrad (2007) '"He is a child and this land is a borderland of Islam": Under-Age Rule and the Quest for Political Stability in the Ayyubid Period.' al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 19 (1). pp. 29-46.

Hirschler, Konrad (2005) 'Pre-Eighteenth-Century Traditions of Revivalism: Damascus in the Thirteenth Century.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 68 (2). pp. 195-214.

Hirschler, Konrad (2002) 'Diskursive Räume in der PKK: Eine Studie zur kurdischen Geschichtsschreibung (Discursive Spaces in the PKK: A Study on Kurdish Historiography).' Kurdische Studien, 2 (1). pp. 63-79.

Hirschler, Konrad (2001) 'Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s.' Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (3). pp. 145-66.

Book Reviews

Hirschler, Konrad (2015) 'Review of The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period by S. Mourad and J. Lindsay.' Journal of the American Oriental Society, 135 (1). pp. 159-160.

Hirschler, Konrad (2013) 'Review of The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East, edited by Peacock, A. and S.N. Yildiz.' The Mediaeval Journal, 3 (2). pp. 178-180.

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) 'Review of Die Chronik des ibn Wasil. Gamāl ad-Dīn Muhammad ibn Wasil. Mufarrig al-Kurūb fī Ahbār Banī Ayyūb by M. Rahim.' Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 107 (4-5). pp. 285-286.

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) 'Review of The Minarets of Cairo: Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the End of the Ottoman Period by D. Behrens-Abouseif.' Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 102 . pp. 414-416.

Hirschler, Konrad (2011) 'Review of Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in 20th Century Egypt by Y. Di-Capua.' Insight Turkey, 13 (1). pp. 222-224.

Hirschler, Konrad (2011) 'Review of The Plain of Saints and Prophets: The Nusayri-Alawi Community of Cilicia (Southern Turkey) and its Sacred Places by G. Procházka-Eisl/St. Procházka.' Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 101 . pp. 563-566.

Hirschler, Konrad (2010) 'Review of Ayyubid Jerusalem: The Holy City in Context 1187-1250, edited by R. Hillenbrand/S. Auld.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 73 (1). pp. 208-210.

Hirschler, Konrad (2010) 'Review of Die Karolinger und die Abbasiden von Bagdad. Legitimationsstrategien früh-mittelalterlicher Herrscherdynastien im transkulturellen Vergleich by W. Drews.' Journal of Global History, 5 (1). pp. 177-178.

Hirschler, Konrad (2010) 'Review of Islamische Stiftungen zwischen juristischer Norm und sozialer Praxis, edited by A. Meier/J. Pahlitzsch/L. Reinfandt.' Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 100 . pp. 342-345.

Hirschler, Konrad (2010) 'Review of The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta. Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer by D. Waines.' BBC History Magazine, 11 (5). p. 76.

Hirschler, Konrad (2010) 'Review of The World of Pharmacy and Pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo by L. Chipman.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 73 (3). pp. 532-534.

Hirschler, Konrad (2009) 'Review of Arabische Geschichtsschreibung in den arabischen Provinzen des Osmanischen Reiches (16.-18. Jahrhundert) by O. Weintritt.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 72 (3). pp. 562-563.

Hirschler, Konrad (2009) 'Review of Charity, Endowments, and Charitable Institutions in Medieval Islam by Y. Lev.' American Historical Review, 114 (2). p. 515.

Hirschler, Konrad (2009) 'Review of Saladin. The Sultan and his Time, 1138-1193 by H. Möhring, transl. David S. Bachrach.' International History Review, 31 (4). pp. 838-839.

Hirschler, Konrad (2009) 'Review of The Fortress of the Raven: Karak in the Middle Islamic Period (1100-1650) by M. Milwright.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 72 (2). pp. 401-403.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Review of In laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, edited by I. Shagrir/R. Ellenblum/J. Riley-Smith.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71 (3). pp. 572-573.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Review of Salah al-Din: al-Qa’id wa-‘asruhu by M. al-Hiyari, and Manhaj Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi fi al-hukm wa-al-qiyada by N. al-T. Sulayman.' al-Usur al-Wusta = العصور الوسطى = al-ʻUṣūr al-Wusṭá, 20 (1). pp. 31-32.

Hirschler, Konrad (2008) 'Review of Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ‘Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World by D. G. Tor.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71 (2). pp. 371-372.

Hirschler, Konrad (2007) 'Review of Certificats de pèlerinage d’époque Ayyoubide. Contribution à l’histoire de l’idéologie de l’Islam au temps des Croisades by D. Sourdel/J. Sourdel-Thomine.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 70 (3). pp. 613-615.

Hirschler, Konrad (2006) 'Review of Das Paradigma der „islamischen Zivilisation“ – oder die Begründung der deutschen Islamwissenschaft durch Carl Heinrich Becker (1876-1933) by A. Haridi.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (2). pp. 321-322.

Hirschler, Konrad (2005) 'Review of Fi ta’rikh al-Ayyubiyin wa-l-Mamalik by Q.A. Qasim.' Mamluk Studies Review, 9 (1). pp. 240-242.

Hirschler, Konrad (2005) 'Review of Ibn al-Wardi. Adib bilad al-Sham by M.S. Muhammad.' Mamluk Studies Review, 9 (2). p. 229.

Hirschler, Konrad (2005) 'Review of Kompilation in arabischen Chroniken. Die Überlieferung vom Aufstand der Zang zwischen Geschichtlichkeit und Intertextualität vom 9. bis ins 15. Jahrhundert by K. Franz.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 15 (3). pp. 357-358.

Hirschler, Konrad (2004) 'Review of Der syrische Blitz. Saladins Sekretär zwischen Selbstdarstellung und Geschichtsschreibung by L. Richter-Bernburg.' Der Islam, 81 (2). pp. 354-356.

Hirschler, Konrad (2004) 'Review of ‘Iqd al-juman fi tarikh ahl al-zaman. al-‘Asr al-Ayyubi by Mahmud Badr al-Din al-‘Ayni, edited by M.R. Mahmud.' Mamluk Studies Review, 8 (2). pp. 213-215.

Hirschler, Konrad (2003) 'Review of Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography. Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate by T. el-Hibri.' Der Islam, 80 (2). pp. 363-365.

Hirschler, Konrad (2002) 'Review of Geschichte der arabischen Welt by U. Haarmann. 4th ed.' Bibliotheca Orientalis, 59 (1-2). pp. 174-176.

Hirschler, Konrad (2002) 'Review of Muslime und Franken by A. Schauer.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 65 (1). pp. 150-152.

Hirschler, Konrad (2002) 'Review of The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin or al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya wa ‘l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya by Baha’ al-Din Ibn Shaddad, transl. D.S. Richards.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 65 (2). pp. 382-383.

Other

Hirschler, Konrad (2016) 'The Ashrafiya Library Database.'