Narratives of Islamic Origins The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing.

How and why did Muslims first come to write their own history? The author argues in this work that the Islamic historical tradition arose not out of idle curiosity, or through imitation of antique models, but as a response to a variety of challenges facing the Islamic community during its first seve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Donner, Fred M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2020.
Colección:SLAEI - Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam Ser.
Temas:
622-661
Historiography.
Islamic Empire > History > 622-661 > Historiography.
Empire islamique > Histoire > 622-661 > Historiographie.
Islamic Empire.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Problem of Sources
  • Approaches to the Sources
  • Critique of the Skeptical Approach
  • PART I: The Intellectual Context of Early Islamic Historical Writing
  • 1. The Date of the Qur'ānic Text
  • The Problem
  • Qur'ān and Ḥadīth on Religious and Political Authority
  • Qur'ān and Ḥadīth on the Prophet's Contemporaries
  • Anachronisms in Qur'ān and Ḥadīth
  • Qur'ān and Ḥadīth on Earlier Prophets
  • Qur'ān and Ḥadīth on Muḥammad
  • Qur'ān and Ḥadīth on Prayer
  • Qur'ān and Ḥadīth on Intercession and the Deceased
  • The Lexicon of Qur'ān and Ḥadīth
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix: Some Documentary Evidence
  • 2. Early Islamic Piety
  • Qur'ānic Piety
  • The Qur'ān and History
  • Survival of the Pious Tradition
  • Documentary Evidence
  • Literary Evidence
  • The Pious Tradition and History
  • 3. Styles of Legitimation in the Early Islamic Community of Believers
  • Piety as a Form of Legitimation
  • Genealogical Legitimation
  • Theocratic Legitimation (Appeal to Divine Will)
  • Historicizing Legitimation: General Considerations
  • Historicizing Legitimation in the Islamic Tradition
  • PART II: The Emergence of Early Islamic Historical Writing
  • 4. The Contours of the Early Islamic Historiographical Tradition
  • Introduction
  • Thematic Balance in al-Ṭabarī's Annals
  • Other Historians' Master Narratives
  • Memory and History
  • Themes and Issues in the Early Islamic Narrative Tradition
  • 5. Themes of Prophecy
  • Nubūwa
  • Qur'ān-Related Narratives
  • 6. Themes of Community
  • Umma
  • Cult and Administration
  • Taxation
  • 7. Themes of Hegemony
  • Futūḥ
  • Khilāfa (Caliphate)
  • 8. Themes of Leadership
  • Fitna
  • Sīrat al-khulafā'
  • Pre-Islamic Arabian History
  • Pre-Islamic Iran
  • Ridda
  • 9. Authenticity, Transformation, and Selection of Historiographical Themes
  • The Narrative Tradition: Themes, Continuities, and Authenticity
  • The Narrative Tradition: Historicization and Hybridization
  • Marginal Themes and Local Historiographical Schools
  • Medina
  • Mecca
  • al-Kūfa
  • al-Baṣra
  • Yemen
  • Egypt
  • Syria
  • Other Marginal Themes: Apocalyptic
  • 10. Chronology and the Development of Chronological Schemes
  • Appendix: Table of Named Years
  • 11. Some Formal and Structural Characteristics of Early Islamic Historiography
  • The Ḥadīth Format
  • Problems of Context
  • Problems of Transmission
  • Topoi and Schematizations
  • Appendix: Ibn Isḥāq's Account of the Conquest of Fiḥl and Damascus
  • 12. Conclusions
  • An Overview of the Growth of Early Islamic Historiography
  • The Pre-Historicist Phase (to ca. 50 AH)
  • The Proto-Historicist Phase (ca. 25 AH to ca. 100 AH)
  • The Early Literate Phase (ca. 75 AH-ca. 150 AH)
  • The Late Literate Phase ("Classical Islamic Historiography," ca. 125 AH-ca. 300 AH)
  • Some General Reflections on Early Islamic Historiography
  • The Question of Multiple Orthodoxies

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