Parable And Politics In Early Islamic History by Tayeb El-Hibri
The Rashidun Caliphs
A study of early Islamic chronicles that shows how parables, anecdotes, and literary tropes shaped the political memory of the Rashidun era. Through close readings of narratives about succession, civil war, and caliphal authority, it reveals how moral exempla and partisan agendas were encoded into accounts of events like the Saqifa, the assassination of the third caliph, and the first fitna. By situating these texts in their Abbasid-era contexts, it argues that literary form and political argument were deeply intertwined, challenging assumptions about straightforward factual reportage and reframing legitimacy and communal identity as products of contested storytelling.
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