Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition

Heroes and Villains

AvHannah-Lena Hagemann

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Why are stories told about the Khārijites? The Islamic tradition portrays Khārijism as a heretical movement of militantly pious zealots, a notion largely reiterated by what little there is of modern scholarship on the Khārijites. Hannah-Lena Hagemann moves away from the usual studies of Khārijite history ‘as it really was’ and instead examines its narrative function in early Islamic historiography. From the Khārijites’ origins at the Battle of Ṣiffīn in 657 CE until the death of the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān in 705 CE, Hagemann's literary analysis provides a fresh perspective on Khārijite history and highlights the need for a serious reassessment of the historical phenomenon of Khārijism as it is currently understood in scholarship.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt:642 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Antal sidor:316
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474450881

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Hannah-Lena Hagemann is the Principal Investigator of the Emmy Noether research group “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg. She is author of The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and co-editor (with Stefan Heidemann) of Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (De Gruyter, 2020).

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This book is an invaluable contribution to the scholarship of early Islam: a stimulating work on the origin of the Khārijites, groups that were known in the first century of Islam for their uncompromising piety and unparalleled violence. Hagemann offers a stimulating new interpretation of the historical tradition of Khārijite history.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: PreliminariesPart II: Early Islamic Historiography and Literary Khārijism1. Literary Approaches to Islamic Historiography and Khārijite History2. Portraying Khārijism3. Composing KhārijismPart III: The Portrayal of Khārijite History from Ṣiffīn to the Death of ʿAbd al-Malik4. Narratives of Khārijite Origins5. Khārijism During the Reign of Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān6. Khārijism from the Second Fitna until the Death of ʿAbd al-MalikPart IV: Observations and Conclusions7. Observations Regarding the Historiographical Tradition on KhārijismConclusionBibliography