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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography - Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate (Paperback, New ed)
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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography - Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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The history of the early 'Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied
as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts
preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri's book
breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical
reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the
reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study
demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact
intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices
used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social
issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of
decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the
narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles,
can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early
narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in
the field of early Islamic historiography.
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