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Owning Disaster

Coping with Catastrophe in Abrahamic Narrative Traditions

By: Aaron M. Hagler

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Owning Disaster

Coping with Catastrophe in Abrahamic Narrative Traditions

By: Aaron M. Hagler

Delving into the intertwined tapestry of Jewish, Christian and Muslim sacred texts, exegesis, philosophy, theology, and historiography, this book explores the similar coping mechanisms across Abrahamic communities in reconciling the implications of disasters without abandoning their faith. Belief in a single, omnipotent God carries with it the challenge of explaining and contextualizing disasters that seem to contravene God’s supposed will. Through explorations of Jewish responses to the destruction of both the First and Second Temples, Christian responses to the Arab Muslim conquests, Muslim responses to the Crusades, and a variety of responses to the Mongol conquests, Aaron M. Hagler unveils the shared patterns and responses that emerge within these communities when confronted by calamity. Initial responses come in the forms of horrified lamentations, but as the initial shock dissipates, a complex dance of self-blame and collective introspection unfolds, as writers and theologians seek to contextualize the tragedy and guide their communities towards hope, resilience, and renewal. Of interest to scholars, theologians, and individuals seeking to explore interconnected notions of resilience within Abrahamic communities, Owning Disaster will resonate with readers eager to contemplate the intricate relationship between religious dogma, human resilience, and the profound questions that emerge when confronted with calamity.

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The Echoes of Fitna

Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War

By: Aaron M. Hagler

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The Echoes of Fitna

Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War

By: Aaron M. Hagler

In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler engages in a close reading of the fitna narratives of three related texts: al-Ṭabarī’s Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Ibn al-Athīr’s al-Kāmil fī al-taʾrīkh, and Ibn Kathīr’s Kitāb al-bidāya wa-l-nihāya. Because the latter two texts’ presentations of the fitna follow al-Ṭabarī’s so closely, moments of divergence in the texts are understood as clear markers of the later historians’ goals, perspectives, and literary-narrative strategies. The analysis of these changes demonstrates that the desire to reframe the meaning of Karbalāʾ is central to Ibn al-Athīr’s and Ibn Kathīr’s narrative construction, and that—while they left al-Ṭabarī’s versions of key events intact—small, even minute changes to contextual expository moments fundamentally change their meaning.

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An Anxious Inheritance

Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy

By: Aaron W. Hughes

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An Anxious Inheritance

Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy

By: Aaron W. Hughes

Introduction -- Part I: Late Antique Fantasies: 1. Qur'ānic Others -- 2. Producing Islam through the Production of Religious Others -- 3. Past Perfect: Opening the Jāhiliyya's Complex Present -- Part II: Subsequent Constructions: 4. Good Jew, Bad Jew -- 5. Making Christians -- 6. Shīʻa: The Other Within -- 7. The Amorphous Zindīq -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.

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Oxford University Press

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The Echoes of Fitna

Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War

By: Aaron M. Hagler

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Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War

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Owning Disaster

Coping with Catastrophe in Abrahamic Narrative Traditions

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Owning Disaster

Owning Disaster

The Echoes of Fitna

The Echoes of Fitna

An Anxious Inheritance

An Anxious Inheritance

The Echoes of Fitna

The Echoes of Fitna

Owning Disaster

Owning Disaster

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