The Echoes of Fitna : : Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War.
"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' prese...
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| Superior document: | Islamic History and Civilization |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chapel Hill : : BRILL,, 2022. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic History and Civilization
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 pages) |
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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.