SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Authored Books

Hirschler, Konrad (2012) The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (paperback: 2013).

Hirschler, Konrad (2006) Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors. London: RoutledgeCurzon (paperback: London: Routledge, 2011).

Edited Books

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) (In Press)

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 (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.

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 (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)

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 and Eilers, Kea and Clara, Seitz (2008) 'Religiousness Among Young Muslims in Germany.' In: al-Hamarneh, A. and Thielmann, J., (eds.), Islam and Muslims in Germany. Leiden: Brill, pp. 83-115.

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 (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, S. and v. 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. Räume göttlicher Macht und menschlicher Verehrung. Schenefeld (Hamburg): EB-Verlag, pp. 113-137.

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.

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.

Articles

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

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 (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.