Ancient imperial heritage and Islamic universal historiography: al-Dīnawarī’s secular perspective
<italic>This article examines the historical work of the ninth-century Muslim scholar Abū</italic> <private-char>null</private-char><italic>anīfa al-Dīnawarī. Adopting the format of universal history, al-Dīnawarī constructed a historical narrative beginning with the first human Adam, continuing through the rise of Islam and culminating in the Caliphate. This paper argues that al-Dīnawarī’s work, appropriately entitled</italic> Longer narratives, <italic>represented an attempt to configure Islamic polity into world history through a reorientation of Sasanian imperial ideology and geographical consciousness in order to fit Islamic sensibilities. As an early example of belles-lettres (adab) oriented (belletrist, adabī) universal historiography, al-Dīnawarī’s work comes across as a perceptive outlook on history, which proved relevant to dynasties of diverse origins struggling to carve a space for themselves in the Persianate political landscape of the late and post-‘Abbāsid world</italic>.
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2007
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Authors: | Yücesoy, Hayrettin |
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Journal of Global History. - Cambridge University Press. - Vol. 2.2007, 02, p. 135-155
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Cambridge University Press |
Description of contents: | Abstract [journals.cambridge.org] |
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