Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 513 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9789004466326
Series Statement:
Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section. 1: The Near & Middle East volume 162
Uniform Title:
Entre mémoire et pouvoir
Content:
In Between Memory and Power, Antoine Borrut offers a fresh approach to early Islamic Syria from a perspective of history of memory, revealing Umayyad and Abbasid historiographical projects, as well as their practices of power
Content:
"Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750"--
Note:
Preface to the English translation (2022) -- Acknowledgements to the French edition (2011) -- Translator's note -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A time of writings and rewritings: writing history in the Syrian space -- A time of writings and rewritings: historiographic filters and Vulgates -- A time of writings and rewritings: sources on the margins of the historiographic Vulgate? -- The second/eight-century Syrian space: between memory and oblivion -- The creation of Umayyad heroes Maslama B. 'Abd Al-Malik, combat hero -- The creation of Umayyad Heroes: 'Umar B. 'Abd Al-'Aziz, the "holy" Caliph -- Interpreting the Abbasid revolution in the Syrian space -- Exercising power in the Syrian space in the second/eighth century: a history of meanings -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Translated from the French
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004466319
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Borrut, Antoine, 1977 - Handbook of oriental studies ; section 1, volume 162: The Near and Middle East: Between memory and power Leiden : Brill, 2023 ISBN 9789004466319
Language:
English
Keywords:
Umayyaden
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Abbasiden 749-1258
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Geschichte 100-700
DOI:
10.1163/9789004466326
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