ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and the Mahdī: Between propaganda and historical memory in the Second Civil War
| Autor: | Mehdy Shaddel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
Literature History 060101 anthropology Historical memory business.industry 05 social sciences History of Islam 0507 social and economic geography Subject (philosophy) 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Late Antiquity Spanish Civil War Law 0601 history and archaeology Circulation (currency) business Composition (language) |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 80:1-19 |
| ISSN: | 1474-0699 0041-977X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0041977x16001075 |
| Popis: | The subject of the present paper is a prophetic tradition found in some compendia of eschatologicalaḥādīthwhich has received considerable scholarly attention since Wilferd Madelung dedicated an article to it in 1981. Whereas Madelung shares the opinion of earlier scholars that only some of the incidents “prophesied” by this tradition are historical, this study aims to show that it is a whollyex post factocomposition which, in its various strata, remarkably captures episodes from the Zubayrid war of propaganda against their rivals as well as their later attempts to redeem the memory of their lost cause as a just one. The discussion closes by producing a highly singular Syrian tradition most certainly put into circulation with the intent of countering these Zubayrid propaganda efforts. |
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