Tayeb El-Hibri
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tayeb El-Hibri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tayeb |
| FAMILY NAME | El-Hibri |
| SIGNATURE | EL-HIBRI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caliphs and Merchants
Over the years there has been a steady stream of books that refuted Henri Pirenne’s ‘thesis’ (from 1937), which claimed that the Islamic conquests disrupted commerce in the Mediterranean, and Jean Sauvaget’s view from a study of Aleppo (1941) that Islam shifted the layout in the urban scene from ‘order to disorder’. In addition to older rebuttals from works by Maurice Lombard and David Whitehouse that argued that Islam in fact created new economi…
ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb and the Abbasids
This article explores the possibility of mutual legitimation between Sunni religious foundations and Abbasid political interests. The main argument centers on anecdotes that elevate the images of al-ʿAbbās as imam and of his son Ibn ʿAbbās as the expert (even founder) of the science of hadith (through close interactions with ʿUmar on topics of learning, and through the collection of hadith in general). It shows the overall relation between histor…
Response to Fred Donner's Review of Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History
In his recent review of my book, Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History , in the August 2011 issue of IJMES , Fred Donner provides several opinions that are in need of correction. His initial impression that the “basic point of Parable and Politics ” follows previous scholarship “in an attempt to work out how much is ‘fact’ and how much is literary invention” (p. 570) sets the wrong tone for evaluating studies on historiography. Far from b…
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History
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.
The Redemption of Umayyad Memory by the ʿAbbāsids
Classical Arabic Biography
Michael Cooperson. Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 217 pp. ISBN 0-521-6199-4, $59.95
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
Religion and Politics under the Early ʿAbbāsids
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
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 inte…
The Early Arabic Historical Tradition
The Regicide of the Caliph Al-Amīn and the Challenge of Representation in Medieval Islamic Historiography
(Coinage Reform Under the Abbāsid Caliph Al-Ma ̧Mūn1)
COINAGE REFORM UNDER THE ABB SID CALIPH AL-MA ̧M N1) BY TAYEB EL-HIBRI (Columbia University, New York) The study of the reign of the caliph al-Ma'mun (A.H.198- 218/A.D.813-833) has often been approached in a variety of isolated essays centering on aspects of his political and religious history. More than anything, al-Ma'mun is remembered in studies on medieval Islamic civilization for promoting the study of sciences and fostering intellectual cha…
Coinage Reform under the Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun
Harun Al-Rashid and The Mecca Protocol Of 802
The succession crisis and civil war that followed the death of Caliph Harun alRashid in 809 is a gloomy chapter in the history of the Abbasid caliphate in its prime that captured the attention of later medieval Muslim scholars. Their main challenge lay in trying to find an appropriate rationale for justifying the conflict between the caliph's sons, al-Amin and al-Maʾmun, and the fate of the community under a caliphate seized by force for the firs…
Harun Al-Rashid and The Mecca Protocol Of 802
The succession crisis and civil war that followed the death of Caliph Harun alRashid in 809 is a gloomy chapter in the history of the Abbasid caliphate in its prime that captured the attention of later medieval Muslim scholars. Their main challenge lay in trying to find an appropriate rationale for justifying the conflict between the caliph's sons, al-Amin and al-Maʾmun, and the fate of the community under a caliphate seized by force for the firs…
Harun Al-Rashid and The Mecca Protocol Of 802
The succession crisis and civil war that followed the death of Caliph Harun alRashid in 809 is a gloomy chapter in the history of the Abbasid caliphate in its prime that captured the attention of later medieval Muslim scholars. Their main challenge lay in trying to find an appropriate rationale for justifying the conflict between the caliph's sons, al-Amin and al-Maʾmun, and the fate of the community under a caliphate seized by force for the firs…
(Coinage Reform Under the Abbāsid Caliph Al-Ma ̧Mūn1)
COINAGE REFORM UNDER THE ABB SID CALIPH AL-MA ̧M N1) BY TAYEB EL-HIBRI (Columbia University, New York) The study of the reign of the caliph al-Ma'mun (A.H.198- 218/A.D.813-833) has often been approached in a variety of isolated essays centering on aspects of his political and religious history. More than anything, al-Ma'mun is remembered in studies on medieval Islamic civilization for promoting the study of sciences and fostering intellectual cha…
Coinage Reform under the Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun
The Regicide of the Caliph Al-Amīn and the Challenge of Representation in Medieval Islamic Historiography
The Early Arabic Historical Tradition
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
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 inte…
Religion and Politics under the Early ʿAbbāsids
Classical Arabic Biography
Michael Cooperson. Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 217 pp. ISBN 0-521-6199-4, $59.95
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
The Redemption of Umayyad Memory by the ʿAbbāsids
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History
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.
Response to Fred Donner's Review of Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History
In his recent review of my book, Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History , in the August 2011 issue of IJMES , Fred Donner provides several opinions that are in need of correction. His initial impression that the “basic point of Parable and Politics ” follows previous scholarship “in an attempt to work out how much is ‘fact’ and how much is literary invention” (p. 570) sets the wrong tone for evaluating studies on historiography. Far from b…
ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb and the Abbasids
This article explores the possibility of mutual legitimation between Sunni religious foundations and Abbasid political interests. The main argument centers on anecdotes that elevate the images of al-ʿAbbās as imam and of his son Ibn ʿAbbās as the expert (even founder) of the science of hadith (through close interactions with ʿUmar on topics of learning, and through the collection of hadith in general). It shows the overall relation between histor…
Caliphs and Merchants
Over the years there has been a steady stream of books that refuted Henri Pirenne’s ‘thesis’ (from 1937), which claimed that the Islamic conquests disrupted commerce in the Mediterranean, and Jean Sauvaget’s view from a study of Aleppo (1941) that Islam shifted the layout in the urban scene from ‘order to disorder’. In addition to older rebuttals from works by Maurice Lombard and David Whitehouse that argued that Islam in fact created new economi…
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