Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-03680-4
- EAN: 9780511036804
- Produktnummer: 13808123
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'050 KB
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