The echoes of fitna: accumulated meaning and performative historiography in the first Muslim civil war

Contenu

Titre

The echoes of fitna: accumulated meaning and performative historiography in the first Muslim civil war

Auteur

Hagler, Aaron M.

Date

2022

Dans

Islamic History and Civilization

Résumé

"In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler engages in a close reading of the fitna narratives of three related texts: al-Tabari's Tarikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Ibn al-Athir's al-Kamil fi al-tarikh, and Ibn Kathir's Kitab al-bidaya wa-l-nihaya. Because the latter two texts' presentations of the fitna follow al-Tabari'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 Karbala is central to Ibn al-Athir's and Ibn Kathir's narrative construction, and that-while they left al-Tabari's versions of key events intact-small, even minute changes to contextual expository moments fundamentally change their meaning"

Editeur

Brill

Place

Boston

Sujet

Fitnah

Langue

eng

Numéro

197

nombre de pages

176

ISBN

978-90-04-52423-1