Poetics of Islamic Historiography

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Poetics of Islamic Historiography is written by Boaz Shoshan and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9047405099 (ISBN 10) and 9789047405092 (ISBN 13).

This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Ṭabarī'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.