Poetics of Islamic Historiography - Shoshan, Boaz
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This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in ?abar?'s "History," Four major events in the history of early Islam are then subject to analysis based on literary criticism and are shown to produce a new meaning.

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This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in ?abar?'s "History," Four major events in the history of early Islam are then subject to analysis based on literary criticism and are shown to produce a new meaning.
Autorenporträt
Boaz Shoshan, Ph.D. (1978) in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, is Chair of the Department of General History and Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He has published extensively on medieval Islamic culture, including Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo (Cambridge, 1993).