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The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains
shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first
extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method,
termed riwaya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify
citation-markers that securely indicate the quotation of earlier
Arabic historical works, proto-books first circulated in the eighth
century. As a case study it reconstructs, with an edition and
translation, around half of an annalistic history written by
al-Layth b. Sa'd in the 740s. In doing so it shows that annalistic
history-writing, comparable to contemporary Syriac or Greek models,
was a part of the first development of Arabic historiography in the
Marwanid period, providing a chronological framework for more
ambitious later Abbasid history-writing. Reconstructing the
original production-contexts and larger narrative frames of
now-atomised quotations not only lets us judge their likely
accuracy, but to consider the political and social relations
underpinning the first production of authoritative historical
knowledge in Islam. It also enables us to assess how Abbasid
compilers combined and augmented the base texts from which they
constructed their histories.
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