Poetics Of Islamic Historiography
Subtitle: Deconstructing Tabari's History (Islamic History and Civilization)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: October 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789004137936
Subjects: Medieval; Tarikh al-rusul wa-al-muluk; Interior Design - General; History; Ã²TabarÃ¥i,; History - General History; Tabari,; History: World; Literary Criticism; Middle East - General; Historiography; TÃ¥arÃ¥ikh al-rusul wa-al-mulÃ¥uk; 838?-923; 838?-923.; Tåaråikh al-rusul wa-al-mulåuk; òTabaråi,
Description: "This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Tabari'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."--Jacket.