Prologue: an elaboration on the authors' position
1. About the history: history versus histoire
2. Late antiquity horizons of knowing: Reviewing the context of Tabari
3. The history as political myth: Nativity narratives and semiotics
4. Narrative and myth as common sense: Theorization of islamic pastorality
5. Common sense and formation of the maalé: The phenomenon of 'other' in the religious Weltanschauung
Conclusion: Looking into the present
Appendix
Analysing the text: The nativity narration
Bibliography.