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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810781403321

Autore

Shoshan Boaz

Titolo

Poetics of Islamic historiography : deconstructing Tabari  History / / by Boaz Shoshan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2004

ISBN

1-280-85947-4

9786610859474

90-474-0509-9

1-4337-0649-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xxxiv, 272 pages)

Collana

Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts ; ; v. 53

Disciplina

909/.1/072

Soggetti

Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Tropes of Mimesis; Chapter 2: Chronology is a flexible matter; Chapter 3: Theology and Ideology as History; Chapter 4: Tabari's Voice and Hand; Chapter 5: Structure and/as Argument in the Saqifa Account; Chapter 6: 'Uthman's Murder: Points of View and Tabari's Role; Chapter 7: The Battle of Siffìn: An Ironic Story; Chapter 8: Husayn's Martyrdom: A Tragic Story; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a new approach to the study of Ṭabarī's History , the most comprehensive historical work written by a classical Muslim historian, this book applies concepts developed by critical theorists and suggests a reading of historiographical material that is not primarily concerned with reconstructing the facts. The book consists of two parts. Part one exposes the assumptions involved in writing classical Islamic history, especially the mimetic aspiration of the sources and the practice that subverts it. Part two examines in detail four significant events in the history of early Islam and demonstrates how a deconstructionist reading subjects endows these with a considerably different meaning and subjects them to new light.