Poetics of Islamic Historiography: Deconstructing Ṭabarī's History

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13793-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 53, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 713 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilizati

Offering a new approach to the study of Tabari'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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shoshan, Boaz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Boaz Shoshan, Ph.D. (1978) in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, is Chair of the Department of General History and Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He has published extensively on medieval Islamic culture, including Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo (Cambridge, 1993).