Author : Boaz Shoshan
Release : 2004-10-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 099/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Poetics of Islamic Historiography by : Boaz Shoshan
Download or read book Poetics of Islamic Historiography written by Boaz Shoshan. This book was released on 2004-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Ṭabarī'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.