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Nevertheless, many things are still unknown about this author, not in the least concerning the position of his historiographical writings. This will be the focus of this chapter.
Despite the fact that studies by J. It draws special attention to how historiographical works should be seen as coherent systems of meanings and understood in their own discursive contextual framework. Although poorly known, it seems this period was marked by a renewal of asceticism and exterior signs of extreme piety.
These informed the agency and intentionality of its author 13 and left a deep impression on how he wrote his chronicle. A better understanding of that particular place allows, therefore, one to better grasp that historiographical architecture. At no moment in time was he ever considered a Sufi shaykh, nor did he show a strong or specific interest for Sufi-related cultural production in his many writings.
