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The Arabic Historical Tradition & the Early Islamic Conquests: Folklore, Tribal Lore, Holy War book cover

1st Edition

The Arabic Historical Tradition & the Early Islamic Conquests Folklore, Tribal Lore, Holy War

By Boaz Shoshan Copyright 2016
208 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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The early Arab conquests pose a considerable challenge to modern-day historians. The earliest historical written tradition emerges only after the second half of the eighth century- over one hundred years removed from the events it contends to describe, and was undoubtedly influenced by the motives and interpretations of its authors. Indeed, when speaking or writing about the past, fact was not... Read more

Introduction Chapter 1: Tribal Lore on the Conquests Chapter 2: Tropes of Islamic Superiority Chapter 3: Yarmūk – Another View Chapter 4: ʿUmar in Jerusalem Chapter 5: When Muslims Meet Infidels Chapter 6: The Conquest of Egypt: Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam and Beyond Epilogue

Biography

Boaz Shoshan is professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev where he has also served as chair of the General History department. His research focuses on the historiography of early Islam and the history of the Mamluk period.

"Shoshan’s inclusion of possible intertextual connections between Arabic-Islamic and Christian sources in his discussion (pp. 65–66) establishes this aspect as an important part of Islamic-Arabic narrativity that should be further explored. The parallel depiction of astrology and scripture as the sources for foreknowledge of Islamic victories among the Sassanians or the Byzantines respectively is also quite strikingly shown."

Georg Leube, Bayreuth, Plekos 19 (2017)

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