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Power-Knowledge in Tabari’s «Histoire» of Islam - Amir Moghadam, Terence Lovat

Power-Knowledge in Tabari’s «Histoire» of Islam

Politicizing the past in Medieval Islamic Historiography
Buch | Softcover
308 Seiten
2019 | New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78874-703-5 (ISBN)
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Through application of modern historiographical analysis and scriptural exegesis, the book explores the space between factual history and interpretive history, or histoire. Muhammad al-Tabari’s History, written about 300 years after the establishment of Islam, is one of the religion’s most important commentaries.
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.

A. Moghadam is a conjoint academic at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His PhD thesis was on the power and knowledge dynamics in the medieval historiographies. He also works on historical narratives, the problems of historical consciousness, and violence. Terence Lovat is Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and holds honorary positions at Oxford and Glasgow Universities in the UK and Royal Roads University, Canada. He has researched and written widely in the area of Islamic theology and education.

CONTENTS: About The History: History versus Histoire - Late Antiquity Horizons of Knowing: Reviewing the Context of Tabari - The History as Political Myth: Nativity Narratives and Semiotics - Narrative and Myth as Common Sense: Theorization of Islamic Pastorality - Common Sense and Formation of the Maale: The Phenomenon of «Other» in the Religious Weltanschauung.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Religions and Discourse ; 62
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 225 mm
Gewicht 436 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte amir • Francis • «Histoire» • Historiography • Interpretive History • Islam • Islamic • Islamic history • James • Knowledge • Lovat • Medieval • Moghadam • Politicizing • Power • Qur'anic exegesis • Qur’anic exegesis • Tabari's • Tabari’s • terence
ISBN-10 1-78874-703-8 / 1788747038
ISBN-13 978-1-78874-703-5 / 9781788747035
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