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The Early Arabic Historical Tradition A Source-Critical Study Translated from the German by Michael Bonner
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- ISBN: 9783959940955
- ISBN: 3959940955
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1 online resource (261 p.).
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electronic resource - Publisher: Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2021.
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| General Note: | Description based upon print version of record. Translation of Albrecht Noth's Quellenkritische Studien (1973), co-authored by Lawrence I. Conrad. It presents criteria to evaluate the character and content of the early Islamic historical tradition, i.e. historiographical works in Arabic written in the 9th and 10th centuries. Apart from describing salient primary and secondary themes covered in these works, the author analyzes literary forms in which this tradition is usually embodied. An investigation of topoi forming the repertoire of early historians is presented next, followed by an analysis of narrative structures characteristic of earl. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Conquest of Cities -- Single Combat -- The Thousandman -- Women Clad as Warriors -- Analogous Narrative Motifs -- IV. Schemata -- Transitional Formulae -- Pseudo-Causes -- Etiologies -- Systematization -- Undifferentiated Reports -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Subject: | Islamic Empire -- Historiography Empire islamique -- Historiographie Historiography Islamic Empire |
