| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 272 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts ; v. 53
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Islamic history and civilization ; v. 53.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ṭabarī, 838?-923. Tārīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk.
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Ṭabarī, 838?-923. |
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Tārīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk (Ṭabarī) |
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Historiography.
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Historiography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shoshan, Boaz. Poetics of Islamic historiography. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 (DLC) 2004062809 |
| ISBN |
9004137939 acidfree paper |
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9789004137936 acidfree paper |
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9789047405092 (electronic book) |
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9047405099 (electronic book) |
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1433706490 |
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9781433706493 |
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