Histoire et narration dans l'historiographie arabe - article ; n°2 ; vol.41, pg 411-431

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1986 - Volume 41 - Numéro 2 - Pages 411-431
History and Narrative Arabic Historical Writing. A. Al-Azmeh.
This article proceeds from the assumption that the world as expressed in historical writing obeys rules distinct from those that animale the world in its immediate empirical unfolding. It is argued that historical narrative has stronger affinities with mythological and other narratives than it has with the world as such. Medieval Arabic historical writing is then analyzed with the aim of showing how it is that narrative rules generate and structure specific profiles of events and of the concatenation of events. In this light, a study is mode of the annalistic mode of historical narrative, which is considered here as the prototype of all chronological narrative. From this, conclusions are drawn pertaining to the relation between real causality and the causal modes prescribed by the narrative structure of chronological historical writing.
21 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.