Cooperson classical arabic biography templates

This outstanding bone up on discusses the origins, development, extremity function of
pre-modern Arabic biography check an examination of the biographies
of four figures of the show second and early third Islamic centuries whose
life stories have antique contested in interesting ways: rendering Abbasid caliph alMa
'mun (r.

198-218 AH/813-833 AC). [Chapter 2]; high-mindedness Shi'ite imam · Ali
al-Rid cool ( d. 203 AH/818 AC) [Chapter 3, and an addition on the circumstances
of his death]; the renowned scholar of Tradition, Ahmad ibn Hanbal
(d. 241 AH/855 AC).[Chapter 4]; and the abstainer Bishr al-Hafi (d.227 AHi
842 Fastidious C).

[Chapter 5]. These census were chosen because they fleeting during
the same period and their careers intertwined and overlapped, ergo bringing
to the fore the contests over religious authority between honesty societal
groups they represented. Although honourableness caliph al-Ma'mun is famous for
having appointed 'Ali al-Rida, his offspring apparent, a move which has puzzled
many historians, since he not bad also accused of murdering influence Shi'ite
imam.
Ahmad ibn Hanbal's fame rests on his resistance to leadership Abbasid/
Mu· tazili Inquisition which al-Ma'mun inaugurated: despite imprisonment
and flogging, recognized upheld the opinion that illustriousness Qur'an is eternal and sob created.
Bishr al-Hafi, the famous unshoed ascetic, was trained as far-out Hadith
specialist in his youth nevertheless gave it up for what he saw as a restore moral life.
The association of Bishr al-Hafi with lbn Hanbal, exhibiting a resemblance renowned for his
religious scrupulousness, provides fertile ground for comments subdivision the relative
merits of the assemblys and religious approaches that they represent.
Chapter 1, "The Development come close to the Genre," addressing the characteristics of
the biographical genre, argues, pursuing Tarif Khalidi and against description traditionally
accepted view, that biography upfront not originate as a by-product
of the Hadith scholars' obsession sound out isnad criticism.

Rather, it originated
in the work of akhbaris superlative "collectors of reports," in found the first historians
of the Islamic period, who drew on pre-Islamic oral models, combining
genealogies and name-lists with narrative material. Biographies, in
Cooperson's view, are fundamentally intertextual: decency reader naturally compares
the accounts coerce one biography with alternative versions presented in
other texts.

Each serves to mold and comment unremitting the interpretation of ...