The Echoes of Fitna : : Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization
• Author: M. Hagler, Aaron.
• Place / Publishing House: Chapel Hill : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 pages)

"In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler engages in a close reading of the fitna narratives of three related texts: al-Tabari's Tarikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Ibn al-Athir's al-Kamil fi al-tarikh, and Ibn Kathir's Kitab al-bidaya wa-l-nihaya. Because the latter two texts' presentations of the fitna follow al-Tabari'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 Karbala is central to Ibn al-Athir's and Ibn Kathir's narrative construction, and that-while they left al-Tabari's versions of key events intact-small, even minute changes to contextual expository moments fundamentally change their meaning"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Introduction. Making Use of Uncertainty -- ‎1. The Later Historians: Ibn al-Athīr and Ibn Kathīr -- ‎2. Their Source -- ‎3. Establishing the Texts' Relationships -- ‎4. Methodology: Performative Historiographical Analysis -- ‎5. Mapping the Fitna -- ‎6. Structure -- ‎Chapter 1. Historical Background of the Fitna and Its Histories -- ‎1. A Brief History of Islam before Our Extant Sources and the Emergence of Sectarian Rivalry -- ‎2. The Raw Data: The Sectarian Narratives -- ‎3. The Fitna as Narrative -- ‎4. Historical Context: Damascus during and after the "Sunnī Revival" -- ‎5. Conclusion -- ‎Part 1. The Slaughter at Karbalāʾ -- ‎Chapter 2. The Karbalāʾ Narrative -- ‎1. The Story of Karbalāʾ -- ‎2. Ibn Kathīr on al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī -- ‎3. Ibn al-Athīr on Karbalāʾ -- ‎4. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 3. The Fight and Its Aftermath -- ‎1. The Immediate Preparation -- ‎2. The Battle -- ‎3. Conclusion -- ‎Chapter 4. Approaching Karbalāʾ -- ‎1. Towards Karbalāʾ -- ‎2. Umayyad Representatives, Softened and Erased -- ‎3. Al-Ḥusayn is Detained and Denied Water -- ‎4. Conclusion -- ‎5. Next Stop -- ‎Part 2. The Betrayal at Ṣiffīn -- ‎Chapter 5. The Ṣiffīn Narrative -- ‎1. Sourcing Ṣiffīn -- ‎2. The Elements of the Story -- ‎2.1. The Journey of ʿAlī from Baṣra to Kūfa to Ṣiffīn and Muʿāwiya's Journey to Ṣiffīn -- ‎2.2. The Battle by the Water -- ‎2.3. The Makeup of the Armies and the Early Skirmishes -- ‎2.4. Laylat al-Harīr-the Main Battle -- ‎2.5. Call for Arbitration -- Appointment of Arbiters -- Withdrawal of the Armies -- ‎2.6. Negotiation, Ruling, and Reneging -- ‎3. The Stakes -- ‎Chapter 6. The Battle of Ṣiffīn: Fight and Conclusion -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. A Broken Link to the Prophet: The Battlefield Death of the Elderly ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir -- ‎3. Arbitration, Negotiation, and a Portentous Stalemate.

‎Chapter 7. Preparing the Battle -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. The Battle of the Camel -- ‎3. The Allegiances of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ and Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī -- ‎4. The Correspondence between ʿAlī and Muʿāwiya -- ‎5. The Battle by the Water: Softening Umayyad Villainy at Ṣiffīn -- ‎6. Conclusion -- ‎Part 3. The Election of ʿUthmān -- ‎Chapter 8. The Story of ʿUthmān -- ‎1. The Shūrā -- ‎2. Six Good Years, Six Bad Years -- ‎3. Muʿāwiya on the Minbar -- ‎4. The Stakes -- ‎5. Six Good Years and Six Bad Years: The Caliphate of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān -- ‎5.1. The ʿUthmān Interlude -- ‎5.2. ʿUthmān's Alteration of the Pilgrimage Rites -- ‎Chapter 9. The Shūrā of ʿUthmān -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. Narrating the Shūrā -- ‎3. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf: Cynical or Sincere? -- ‎4. ʿAlī's Reactions: Playing the Wild Card -- ‎5. Looking Backward -- ‎Part 4. Further Ripples -- ‎Chapter 10. The Stories of Succession -- ‎1. Introduction -- ‎2. The Death of the Prophet and the Sāqifa -- ‎3. The Caliphate of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb -- ‎4. The Stakes -- ‎Chapter 11. The Prophet Muḥammad and His Role in the Narrative -- ‎Conclusion. The Tapestry of History -- ‎1. Karbalāʾ the Pebble -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index.