Early Sunnī Historiography

A Study of the Tārīkh of Khalīfa B. Khayyāṭ
Approx. 316 Pp. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38316-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 157, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

In Early Sunni Historiography, Tobias Andersson presents the first full-length study of the earliest Islamic chronological history extant: the Tarikh (Chronicle) of the Basran hadith scholar and historian Khalifa b. Khayyat al-'Usfuri (d. 240/854). The book examines how Khalifa worked as a historian in terms of his social and intellectual context, selection of sources, methods of compilation, arrangement of material and narration of key themes in comparison to the wider historiographical tradition. It shows how Khalifa’s affiliation with the early Sunni hadith scholars of Basra is reflected in his methods and concerns throughout the Tarikh, while also highlighting similarities to other histories compiled by hadith scholars of the third/ninth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andersson, Tobias

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on Conventions

Introduction

1 Subject and Scope

2 Previous Studies on Khalifa’s Tarikh

3 Manuscripts and Published Editions

1 The Transmission of Khalifa’s Tarikh

1 Introduction

2 The Transmitters: Baqi b. Makhlad and Musa b. Zakariyya al-Tustari

3 Differences between the Recensions and the Question of Authorship

4 Missing Material in Baqi’s Recension

5 Conclusion

2 Khalifa’s Life and Works

1 Introduction

2 Biography

3 Works

4 Scholarly Reputation

5 Khalifa’s Tarikh in Later Scholarship

6 Conclusion

3 Social and Intellectual Context

1 Introduction

2 Social and Political Context

3 Intellectual Context

4 Historiographical Context

5 Conclusion

4 Khalifa’s Sources

1 Introduction

2 Main Direct Transmitters (20–110 Citations)

3 Less Frequently Cited Direct Transmitters (5–19 Citations)

4 Minor Direct Transmitters (1–4 Citations)

5 Major Indirect Sources

6 Analysis of Material

7 Conclusion

5 Khalifa’s Methods

1 Introduction

2 Epistemology of Historical Knowledge

3 System of Reference

4 Selection and Evaluation of Transmitters

5 Conclusion

6 Structure and Arrangement of the Tarikh

1 Introduction

2 Concept of Chronography

3 General Structure: Annalistic and Caliphal Chronology

4 Structure of Individual Years and Lists

5 Conclusion

7 Themes I: Prophethood, Community and Hegemony

1 Introduction

2 Prophethood

3 Community

4 Hegemony

5 Conclusion

8 Themes II: Leadership and Civil War

1 Introduction

2 The Rashidun Period

3 The Umayyad Period

4 The 'Abbasid Period

5 Conclusion

Conclusion

1 Overview

2 Methods, Concerns and Contexts of the Early Historians

3 Chronography among the Early Hadith Scholars

4 Articulations of Sunni Views in the Early Historical Tradition

Appendix: Citations of Khalifa in al-Bukhari’s al-Jami' al-sahih

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tobias Andersson, Ph.D. (2016), University of Edinburgh, is a researcher at Uppsala University. He has published in the field of Islamic historiography and translated classical Arabic works into English and Swedish.