Overview
In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler engages in a close reading of the fitna narratives of three related texts: al-Ṭabarī's Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Ibn al-Athīr's al-Kāmil fī al-taʾrīkh, and Ibn Kathīr's Kitāb al-bidāya wa-l-nihāya. Because the latter two texts' presentations of the fitna follow al-Ṭabarī'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 Karbalāʾ is central to Ibn al-Athīr's and Ibn Kathīr's narrative construction, and that--while they left al-Ṭabarī's versions of key events intact--small, even minute changes to contextual expository moments fundamentally change their meaning.
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- ISBN-13: 9789004524231
- ISBN-10: 9004524231
- Publisher: Brill
- Publish Date: September 2022
- Page Count: 188
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