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Power-Knowledge in Tabari's "Histoire" of Islam - Politicizing the past in Medieval Islamic Historiography (Paperback, New edition)
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Power-Knowledge in Tabari's "Histoire" of Islam - Politicizing the past in Medieval Islamic Historiography (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Religions and Discourse, 62
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Muhammad al-Tabari's History, written about 300 years after the
establishment of Islam, is one of the religion's most important
commentaries. It offers important insights into the early
development of Islam, not so much for its history as for the ways
it was interpreted and understood. Through application of modern
historiographical analysis and scriptural exegesis, the book
explores the space between factual history and interpretive
history, or histoire. The focus is especially on the ways in which
al-Tabari himself understood and interpreted Qur'anic evidence,
employing it not so much for literal as for political purposes. In
this sense, his work is best understood not as a reliable history
in the modern sense but as a politically-inspired commentary.
Granted that his work has often been relied on for Islam's
historical claims, this book offers important new insights into the
ways in which power and politics were shaping interpretations in
its first three hundred years.
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