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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography

Tayeb El-Hibri

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  • 250 sidor
  • 1999
The history of the early 'Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri's book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.
  • Författare: Tayeb El-Hibri
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780521650236
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 250
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1999-11-01
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press