TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haider,Najam Iftikhar
TI  - The rebel and the imam in early Islam: explorations in Muslim historiography 
SN  - 9781107026056
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - History
KW  - 661-750
KW  - Historiography
KW  - 750-1258
N1  - Includes bibliographical references [pages 281-288] and index; Modeling Islamic historical writing -- The rise and fall of Mukhtar b. Abi'Ubayd (d. 67/687) -- The life of Musa b. Ja'far al-Kazim (d. 183/799) -- The last years of Yahya b.'Abd Allah (d. 187/803) -- Reconsideration -- Appendix A. The narrative elements of Mukhtar's revolt
N2  - To what extent do contemporary approaches to the study of Islamic historiography reflect the presuppositions that informed the writing of early Muslim historians? A proper answer to this question requires a consideration of the classical and late antique periods. Numerous studies over the last fifty years have shown that Muslim political, social, and intellectual structures appropriated (and further elaborated) preexisting models. This claim is not universally applicable, but it seems to hold in areas ranging from coinage and court culture to legal codes and literature. A similar dynamic likely governed the relationship between late antique and early Muslim historical writing. At the very least, an approach that highlights such continuity promises a better understanding of the source material than does the current propensity to utilize categories drawn from a modern European context
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