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An Imaginary Byzantium in Early Islam: Byzantium as Viewed through the Sīra Literature

Yahyaoui, Yassine

Religions (Basel, Switzerland ), 2024-05, Vol.15 (5), p.545 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Basel: MDPI AG

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  • Título:
    An Imaginary Byzantium in Early Islam: Byzantium as Viewed through the Sīra Literature
  • Autor: Yahyaoui, Yassine
  • Assuntos: 7th century ; 9th century ; Arabic literature ; biography of the Prophet Muḥammad ; Book publishing ; Byzantine civilization ; Consciousness ; Criticism and interpretation ; Crone, Patricia ; Historiography ; History ; imaginary Byzantium ; Imaginary places ; Islam ; Islamic literature ; Maghāzī ; Medieval period ; Muslims ; Narratives ; Otherness ; Religion ; Source materials ; Sīra
  • É parte de: Religions (Basel, Switzerland ), 2024-05, Vol.15 (5), p.545
  • Descrição: This article examines the emergence of new representations of Byzantium in early Arabic literature, with a focus on the Sīra, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad. This historical investigation leads to a dual conclusions that the Arab perception of Byzantium not only forged an “imaginary Byzantium” but also marked the emergence of Arab self-consciousness. This process significantly influenced the Arab historical and cultural narratives, framing them within the context of the Arabic identity that emerged in late antiquity. Nevertheless, this relationship between the early Islamic community and Byzantium does little to confirm accurate knowledge about Byzantium, rendering the emerging representations as not truly reflective of “reality”, but rather presenting us with an “imaginary Byzantium”. This applies whether related to events in the 1st/7th century or the transition from oral to written texts during the 2nd/8th and 3rd/9th centuries. Furthermore, these representations reveal more about the creators of this imaginary than the other itself, shedding light on the motives of early Muslim writers who used the Sīra as a vehicle for these imaginaries. Ultimately, the article identifies, through the textual analysis and historical contextualization of Sīra, two narrative layers therein that are related to the imaginary Byzantium. The first layer reflected a pervasive fear of Byzantium, while the second layer represented an attitude of challenge and rivalry.
  • Editor: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Idioma: Inglês
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