Early Sunni historiography : : a study of the Tarikh of Khalifa born Khayyat /

Early Sunni historiography : : a study of the Tarikh of Khalifa born Khayyat / / by Tobias Andersson.

In Early Sunnī Historiography , Tobias Andersson presents the first full-length study of the earliest Islamic chronological history extant: the Tārīkh ( Chronicle ) of the Basran ḥadīth scholar and historian Khalīfa born Khayyāṭ al-ʿUṣfurī (d. 240/854). The book examines how Khalīfa worked as a hist...

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Andersson, T. S.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Islamic History and Civilization 157.
Physical Description:1 online resource (332 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Conventions
  • Introduction
  • The Transmission of Khalīfa’s Tārīkh
  • Khalīfa’s Life and Works
  • Social and Intellectual Context
  • Khalīfa’s Sources
  • Khalīfa’s Methods
  • Structure and Arrangement of the Tārīkh
  • Themes I: Prophethood, Community and Hegemony
  • Themes II: Leadership and Civil War
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Citations of Khalīfa in al-Bukhārī’s al-Jāmiʿ al-ṣaḥīḥ
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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