The echoes of fitna : accumulated meaning and performative historiography in the first Muslim civil war
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The echoes of fitna : accumulated meaning and performative historiography in the first Muslim civil war
(Islamic history and civilization, v. 197)
Brill, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler engages in a close reading of the fitna narratives of three related texts: al-Tabari's Ta'rikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Ibn al-Athir's al-Kamil fi al-ta'rikh, and Ibn Kathir's Kitab al-bidaya wa-l-nihaya. Because the latter two texts' presentations of the fitna follow al-Tabari's so closely, moments of divergence in the texts are understood as clear markers of the later historians' goals, perspectives, and literary-narrative strategies.
The analysis of these changes demonstrates that the desire to reframe the meaning of Karbala' is central to Ibn al-Athir's and Ibn Kathir's narrative construction, and that-while they left al-Tabari's versions of key events intact-small, even minute changes to contextual expository moments fundamentally change their meaning.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Making Use of Uncertainty
1 The Later Historians: Ibn al-Athir and Ibn Kathir
2 Their Source
3 Establishing the Texts' Relationships
4 Methodology: Performative Historiographical Analysis
5 Mapping the Fitna
6 Structure
1 Historical Background of the Fitna and Its Histories
1 A Brief History of Islam before Our Extant Sources and the Emergence of Sectarian Rivalry
2 The Raw Data: The Sectarian Narratives
3 The Fitna as Narrative
4 Historical Context: Damascus during and after the "Sunni Revival"
5 Conclusion
Part 1 The Slaughter at Karbala'
2 The Karbala' Narrative
1 The Story of Karbala'
2 Ibn Kathir on al-Husayn ibn 'Ali
3 Ibn al-Athir on Karbala'
4 Conclusion
3 The Fight and Its Aftermath
1 The Immediate Preparation
2 The Battle
3 Conclusion
4 Approaching Karbala'
1 Towards Karbala'
2 Umayyad Representatives, Softened and Erased
3 Al-Husayn is Detained and Denied Water
4 Conclusion
5 Next Stop
Part 2 The Betrayal at Siffin
5 The Siffin Narrative
1 Sourcing Siffin
2 The Elements of the Story
3 The Stakes
6 The Battle of Siffin: Fight and Conclusion
1 Introduction
2 A Broken Link to the Prophet: The Battlefield Death of the Elderly 'Ammar ibn Yasir
3 Arbitration, Negotiation, and a Portentous Stalemate
7 Preparing the Battle
1 Introduction
2 The Battle of the Camel
3 The Allegiances of 'Amr ibn al-'As and Abu Musa al-Ash'ari
4 The Correspondence between 'Ali and Mu'awiya
5 The Battle by the Water: Softening Umayyad Villainy at Siffin
6 Conclusion
Part 3 The Election of 'Uthman
8 The Story of 'Uthman
1 The Shura
2 Six Good Years, Six Bad Years
3 Mu'awiya on the Minbar
4 The Stakes
5 Six Good Years and Six Bad Years: The Caliphate of 'Uthman ibn 'Affan
9 The Shura of 'Uthman
1 Introduction
2 Narrating the Shura
3 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf: Cynical or Sincere?
4 'Ali's Reactions: Playing the Wild Card
5 Looking Backward
Part 4 Further Ripples
10 The Stories of Succession
1 Introduction
2 The Death of the Prophet and the Saqifa
3 The Caliphate of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab
4 The Stakes
11 The Prophet Muhammad and His Role in the Narrative
Conclusion: The Tapestry of History
1 Karbala' the Pebble
Bibliography
Index
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