Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521650232

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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.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139426214

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Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN : 0511117523

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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography by Tayeb El-Hibri Pdf

The author applies a new literary-critical reading of the early Islamic sources to demonstrate how medieval narrators devised elusive ways of shedding light on the political, social and religious debates of the 'Abbasid' period. This book represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Islamic Empire
ISBN : 0511310072

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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography by Tayeb El-Hibri Pdf

The author applies a new literary-critical reading of the early Islamic sources to demonstrate how medieval narrators devised elusive ways of shedding light on the political, social and religious debates of the 'Abbasid' period. This book represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107183247

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The Abbasid Caliphate by Tayeb El-Hibri Pdf

A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, this study examines the Caliphate as an empire and an institution, and its imprint on the society and culture of classical Islamic civilization.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231150828

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Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History by Tayeb El-Hibri Pdf

Tayeb El-Hibri draws on medieval Islamic chronicles to remap the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy, offering an insightful critique of both early and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing various rulers. He also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions.

Author : Tarif Khalidi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0873952820

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Islamic Historiography by Tarif Khalidi Pdf

The importance of Muslim historical writing in the medieval period and the fact that few detailed studies exist, make Professor Khalidi's book of special importance both to Arabists and to medievalists. It may be read both as a source for Muslim and non-Muslim history and for the light it sheds on Arabic/Islamic civilization in its prime.

Author : Chase F. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521629365

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Islamic Historiography by Chase F. Robinson Pdf

How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in Chase F. Robinson's Islamic Historiography, an introduction to the principal genres, issues, and problems of Islamic historical writing in Arabic, that stresses the social and political functions of historical writing in the Islamic world. Beginning with the origins of the tradition in the eighth and ninth centuries and covering its development until the beginning of the sixteenth century, this is an authoritative and yet accessible guide through a complex and forbidding field, which is intended for readers with little or no background in Islamic history or Arabic.

Author : Sami G. Massoud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004415294

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Studies in Islamic Historiography by Sami G. Massoud Pdf

Studies in Islamic Historiography: Essays in Honour of Professor Donald P. Little examines historiographical production in a variety of milieus and traditions, from the classical to the early modern periods.

Author : Tarif Khalidi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438408903

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Islamic Historiography by Tarif Khalidi Pdf

The importance of Muslim historical writing in the medieval period and the fact that few detailed studies exist, make Professor Khalidi's book of special importance both to Arabists and to medievalists. It may be read both as a source for Muslim and non-Muslim history and for the light it sheds on Arabic/Islamic civilization in its prime.

Author : Boaz Shoshan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047405092

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Poetics of Islamic Historiography by Boaz Shoshan Pdf

This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Ṭabarī'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.

Author : ?Az?z ?A?mah
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9637326731

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The Times of History by ?Az?z ?A?mah Pdf

Historical categorization -- Tropes and temporalities of historiographic romanticism, modern and Islamic -- Islam and the history of civilizations -- Typological time, patterning and the past appropriated -- Chronophagous discourse: a study of the clerico-legal appropriation of the world in an Islamic tradition -- The muslim canon from late antiquity to the era of modernism -- History and narration in Arab historiography -- History of the future -- God's chronography and dissipative time -- Rhetoric for the senses: a consideration of Muslim paradise narratives -- Distractions of Clio: impasses and perspectives of historians' history -- Islamic political thought: current historiography and the frame of history -- Monotheistic monarchy -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Author : Alexander Knysh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317347125

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Islam in Historical Perspective by Alexander Knysh Pdf

Islam in Historical Perspective integrates history of Islamic societies with discussion of how Muslim scriptures, laws, moral values and myths have shaped lives and thought of individual Muslims and various Muslim communities from the rise of Islam until today. It provides carefully selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables readers to form a comprehensive balanced vision of Islam's evolution. Author Alexander Knysh shows Muslims have made sense of their life experiences by constantly interpreting and re-interpreting Islam's foundational ideas in accordance with ever-changing social and political conditions. In addition to the combined historical and chronological approach, the author offers in-depth discussions of intellectual dialogues and struggles within Islamic tradition. He shows Islam to be a social and political force, while addressing Muslim devotional practices, artistic creativity and structures of everyday life and provides a wealth of historical anecdotes and quotations from original sources that are designed to illustrate principal points.

Author : Franz Rosenthal
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A History of Muslim Historiography by Franz Rosenthal Pdf

Author : Herbert Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317589204

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Routledge Handbook on Early Islam by Herbert Berg Pdf

The formative period of Islam remains highly contested. From the beginning of modern scholarship on this formative period, scholars have questioned traditional Muslim accounts on early Islam. The scholarly fixation is mirrored by sectarian groups and movements within Islam, most of which trace their origins to this period. Moreover, contemporary movements from Salafists to modernists continue to point to Islam’s origins to justify their positions. This Handbook provides a definitive overview of early Islam and how this period was understood and deployed by later Muslims. It is split into four main parts, the first of which explores the debates and positions on the critical texts and figures of early Islam. The second part turns to the communities that identified their origins with the Qurʾān and Muḥammad. In addition to the development of Muslim identities and polities, of particular focus is the relationship with groups outside or movements inside of the umma (the collective community of Muslims). The third part looks beyond what happened from the 7th to the 9th centuries CE and explores what that period, the events, figures, and texts have meant for Muslims in the past and what they mean for Muslims today. Not all Muslims or scholars are willing to merely reinterpret early Islam and its sources, though; some are willing to jettison parts, or even all, of the edifice that has been constructed over almost a millennium and a half. The Handbook therefore concludes with discussions of re-imaginations and revisions of early Islam and its sources. Almost every major debate in the study of Islam and among Muslims looks to the formative period of Islam. The wide range of contributions from many of the leading academic experts on the subject therefore means that this book will be a valuable resource for all students and scholars of Islamic studies, as well as for anyone with an interest in early Islam.