Poetics of Islamic Historiography
Deconstructing Ṭabarī's History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23168667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boaz Shoshan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Poetics of Islamic Historiography (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047405092 |
| OpenAlex | W4233456629 |
| ISBN | 9789047405092 |
| Open Library | OL35889732M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Offering a new approach to the study of Ṭabarī'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.
Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Historiography · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Poetics · Poetry · Reading (process) · Education and Islamic Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Islamic civilization
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| Citations per year | 0.16 |
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| Citation span | 1920 - 2024 (105) |
| Highly cited | No |