Poetics of Islamic historiography deconstructing Ṭabarī History
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2004
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| Schriftenreihe: | Islamic history and civilization
v. 53 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-264) and index 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 This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in ?abari's History. Four major events in the history of early Islam are then subject to analysis based on literary criticism and are shown to produce a new meaning |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 272 p.) |
| ISBN: | 1433706490 9004137939 9047405099 9781433706493 9789004137936 9789047405092 |