Power-knowledge in Tabari's Histoire of islam : politicizing the past in medieval Islamic historiography /
A. Moghadam and Terence Lovat
- Oxford : Peter Lang, cop. 2019
- (275 p.)
Bibliogr. p. 235-269
Prologue: an elaboration on the authors' position -- 1. About the history: history versus histoire -- 2. Late antiquity horizons of knowing: Reviewing the context of Tabari -- 3. The history as political myth: Nativity narratives and semiotics -- 4. Narrative and myth as common sense: Theorization of islamic pastorality -- 5. Common sense and formation of the maalé: The phenomenon of 'other' in the religious Weltanschauung -- Conclusion: Looking into the present -- Appendix -- Analysing the text: The nativity narration -- Bibliography