The First Arabic Annals by Edward Zychowiczcoghill

The First Arabic Annals by Edward Zychowiczcoghill

The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method, termed riwāya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify citation-markers that securely indicate the quotation of earlier Arabic historical works, proto-books first circulated in the eighth century. As a case study it reconstructs, with an edition and translation, around half of an annalistic history written by al-Layth b. Saʿd in the 740s. In doing so it shows that annalistic history-writing, comparable to contemporary Syriac or Greek models, was a part of the first development of Arabic historiography in the Marwanid period, providing a chronological framework for more ambitious later Abbasid history-writing. Reconstructing the original production-contexts and larger narrative frames of now-atomised quotations not only lets us judge their likely accuracy, but to consider the political and social relations underpinning the first production of authoritative historical knowledge in Islam. It also enables us to assess how Abbasid compilers combined and augmented the base texts from which they constructed their histories.

Edward Zychowicz-Coghill, King's College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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ISBN 13	9783110712650
ISBN 10	3110712652
Titel	The First Arabic Annals
Autor	Edward Zychowiczcoghill
Serie	Studies In The History And Culture Of The Middle East
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	De Gruyter
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-03-22
Seitenanzahl	135
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