Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing

Fred M. Donner

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b9f5gk

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-3-95994-110-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95994-111-2
Publisher: Gerlach Press, Berlin
Series: SLAEI - Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Volume: 14
Language: English
Pages: 375
Product Type: Monograph

1. CONTENTS No access
2. Preface No access
1. The Problem of Sources No access
2. Approaches to the Sources No access
3. Critique of the Skeptical Approach No access
1. 1. The Problem No access
  2. Qur’ān and Ḥadīth on Religious and Political Authority No access
  3. Qur’ān and Ḥadīth on the Prophet’s Contemporaries No access
  4. Anachronisms in Qur’ān and Ḥadīth No access
  5. Qur’ān and Ḥadīth on Earlier Prophets No access
  6. Qur’ān and Ḥadīth on Muḥammad No access
  7. Qur’ān and Ḥadīth on Prayer No access
  8. Qur’ān and Ḥadīth on Intercession and the Deceased No access
  9. The Lexicon of Qur’ān and Ḥadīth No access
  10. Conclusions No access
  11. Appendix: Some Documentary Evidence No access
2. 1. Qur’ānic Piety No access
  2. The Qur’ān and History No access
  3. Survival of the Pious Tradition No access
  4. Documentary Evidence No access
  5. Literary Evidence No access
  6. The Pious Tradition and History No access
3. 1. Piety as a Form of Legitimation No access
  2. Genealogical Legitimation No access
  3. Theocratic Legitimation (Appeal to Divine Will) No access
  4. Historicizing Legitimation: General Considerations No access
  5. Historicizing Legitimation in the Islamic Tradition No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Thematic Balance in al-Ṭabarī’s Annals No access
  3. Other Historians’ Master Narratives No access
  4. Memory and History No access
  5. Themes and Issues in the Early Islamic Narrative Tradition No access
2. 1. Nubūwa No access
  2. Qur’ān-Related Narratives No access
3. 1. Umma No access
  2. Cult and Administration No access
  3. Taxation No access
4. 1. Futūḥ No access
  2. Khilāfa (Caliphate) No access
5. 1. Fitna No access
  2. Sīrat al-khulafā’ No access
  3. Pre-Islamic Arabian History No access
  4. Pre-Islamic Iran No access
  5. Ridda No access
6. 1. The Narrative Tradition: Themes, Continuities, and Authenticity No access
  2. The Narrative Tradition: Historicization and Hybridization No access
  3. 1. Medina No access
    2. Mecca No access
    3. al-Kūfa No access
    4. al-Baṣra No access
    5. Yemen No access
    6. Egypt No access
    7. Syria No access
  4. Other Marginal Themes: Apocalyptic No access
7. 1. Appendix: Table of Named Years No access
8. 1. The Ḥadīth Format No access
  2. Problems of Context No access
  3. Problems of Transmission No access
  4. Topoi and Schematizations No access
  5. Appendix: Ibn Isḥāq’s Account of the Conquest of Fiḥl and Damascus No access
9. 1. 1. The Pre-Historicist Phase (to ca. 50 AH) No access
    2. The Proto-Historicist Phase (ca. 25 AH to ca. 100 AH) No access
    3. The Early Literate Phase (ca. 75 AH-ca. 150 AH) No access
    4. The Late Literate Phase (“Classical Islamic Historiography,” ca. 125 AH-ca. 300 AH) No access
  2. Some General Reflections on Early Islamic Historiography No access
  3. The Question of Multiple Orthodoxies No access
Epilogue: What Became of the Classical Historiographical Tradition? No access Pages 291 - 296
1. Bibliography and Abbreviations No access
Index No access Pages 345 - 358