content and composition of Islamic salvation history /
نام نخستين پديدآور
John Wansbrough ; foreword, translations, and expanded notes by Gerald Hawting
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Amherst, N.Y. :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Prometheus Books,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2006
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xxii, 200 pages ;
ابعاد
24 cm
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Originally published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1978
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xxii) and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
I. Historiography -- II. Authority -- III. Identity -- IV. Epistemology -- Res Ipsa Loquitur : history and mimesis
بدون عنوان
0
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"In this work, originally published in 1978, John Wansbrough, one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of Islamic studies, analyzes "early Islamic historiography - or rather the interpretive myths underlying this historiography - as a late manifestation of Old Testament 'salvation history.' " Continuing themes that he treated in a previous work, Quranic Studies, Wansbrough argues that the traditional biographies of Muhammad (Arabic sira and maghazi) are best understood, not as historical documents that attest to "what really happened," but as literary texts written more than one hundred years after the facts and heavily influenced by Jewish, and to a lesser extent Christian, interconfessional polemics. Thus, Islamic "history" is almost completely a later literary reconstruction, which evolved out of an environment of competing Jewish and Christian sects. As such, Wansbrough felt that the most fruitful means of analyzing such texts was literary analysis. Furthermore, he maintained that it was next to impossible to extract the kernel of historical truth from works that were created principally to serve later religious agendas." "Although his work remains controversial to this day, his insights and approaches to the study of Islam continue to inspire scholars. This new edition contains an assessment of Wansbrough's contributions and many useful textual notes and translations by Gerald Hawting (professor of the history of the Near and Middle East, University of London), plus the author's 1986 Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture, "Res Ipsa Loquitur.""--Jacket
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Islam-- Doctrines-- History
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )