Echoes of Fitna (eBook)

Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War

Aaron M. Hagler (Autor)

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2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52425-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler engages in a close reading of the fitna narratives of three related texts: al-Tabari's Ta?rikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Ibn al-Athir's al-Kamil fi al-ta?rikh, and Ibn Kathir's Kitab al-bidaya wa-l-nihaya. Because the latter two texts' presentations of the fitna follow al-Tabari's so closely, moments of divergence in the texts are understood as clear markers of the later historians' goals, perspectives, and literary-narrative strategies. The analysis of these changes demonstrates that the desire to reframe the meaning of Karbala? is central to Ibn al-Athir's and Ibn Kathir's narrative construction, and that-while they left al-Tabari's versions of key events intact-small, even minute changes to contextual expository moments fundamentally change their meaning.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• ISBN-10: 90-04-52425-8 / 9004524258
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-52425-5 / 9789004524255