The Echoes of Fitna: Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War
Aaron M Hagler, "The Echoes of Fitna: Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War "
English | ISBN: 9004524231 | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 819 KB
English | ISBN: 9004524231 | 2022 | 188 pages | PDF | 819 KB
In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler engages in a close reading of the fitna narratives of three related texts: al-Ṭabarī's Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Ibn al-Athīr's al-Kāmil fī al-taʾrīkh, and Ibn Kathīr's Kitāb al-bidāya wa-l-nihāya. Because the latter two texts' presentations of the fitna follow al-Ṭabarī's so closely, moments of divergence in the texts are understood as clear markers of the later historians' goals, perspectives, and literary-narrative strategies.
The analysis of these changes demonstrates that the desire to reframe the meaning of
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