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Power-knowledge in Tabari's Histoire of Islam : politicizing the past in medieval Islamic historiography
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Power-knowledge in Tabari's Histoire of Islam : politicizing the past in medieval Islamic historiography / A. Moghadam and Terence Lovat.
ISBN
9781788747035
1788747038
Publication
Oxford : Peter Lang, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xxiii, 275 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 20, 2019
Series
Religions and discourse ; volume 62
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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