The Echoes of Fitna

Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War

von Aaron M Hagler

176 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler engages in a close reading of the fitna narratives of three related texts: al-Ṭabarī's Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Ibn al-Athīr's al-Kāmil fī al-taʾrīkh, and Ibn Kathīr's Kitāb al-bidāya wa-l-nihāya. Because the latter two texts' presentations of the fitna follow al-Ṭabarī's so closely, moments of divergence in the texts are understood as clear markers of the later historians' goals, perspectives, and literary-narrative strategies. The analysis of these changes demonstrates that the desire to reframe the meaning of Karbalāʾ is central to Ibn al-Athīr's and Ibn Kathīr's narrative construction, and that--while they left al-Ṭabarī's versions of key events intact--small, even minute changes to contextual expository moments fundamentally change their meaning.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
• ISBN: 9789004524231
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2022
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill