LEADER 03442nam 22006374a 450 001 9910807322403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-11678-3 010 $a1-280-15382-2 010 $a0-511-11752-3 010 $a0-511-00431-1 010 $a0-511-15021-0 010 $a0-511-31007-2 010 $a0-511-49747-4 010 $a0-511-05204-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006755 035 $a(EBL)144702 035 $a(OCoLC)437072975 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235137 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215827 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235137 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10248585 035 $a(PQKB)11402851 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511497476 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC144702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL144702 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014953 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15382 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006755 100 $a19980825d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReinterpreting Islamic historiography $eHarun al-Rashid and the narrative of the Abbasid caliphate /$fTayeb El-Hibri 210 $aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in Islamic civilization 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-03304-7 311 $a0-521-65023-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index. 327 $aPreliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and note on the dates; The line of the early 'Abbasid caliphs; CHAPTER I Historical background and introduction; CHAPTER 2 Harun al-Rashid: where it all started or ended; CHAPTER 3 Al-Amin: the challenge of regicide in Islamic memory; CHAPTER 4 Al-Ma'mun: the heretic caliph; CHAPTER 5 The structure of civil war narratives; CHAPTER 6 Al-Mutawakkil: an encore of the family tragedy; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index 330 $aThe history of the early 'Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri's book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography. 410 0$aCambridge studies in Islamic civilization. 607 $aIslamic Empire$xHistory$y750-1258$xHistoriography 676 $a909/.09767101 700 $aEl-Hibri$b Tayeb$01596184 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807322403321 996 $aReinterpreting Islamic historiography$94029995 997 $aUNINA