Description
Why are stories told about the Khārijites? The Islamic tradition portrays Khārijism as a heretical movement of militantly pious zealots, a notion largely reiterated by what little there is of modern scholarship on the Khārijites. Hannah-Lena Hagemann moves away from the usual studies of Khārijite history 'as it really was' and instead examines its narrative function in early Islamic historiography. From the Khārijites' origins at the Battle of Ṣiffīn in 657 CE until the death of the caliph ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān in 705 CE, Hagemann's literary analysis provides a fresh perspective on Khārijite history and highlights the need for a serious reassessment of the historical phenomenon of Khārijism as it is currently understood in scholarship.
Author: Hannah-Lena Hagemann
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 06/16/2021
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9781474450881
ISBN10: 1474450881
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | General
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Religion | Islam | History
About the Author
Hannah-Lena Hagemann is based in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Hamburg University, where she leads a research group on rebellion in early Islam. She is co-editor of Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (De Gruyter, 2020).