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This book aims to demonstrate that the accounts that feature Muhammad's grandfather in Ibn Ishaq's Sira are the product of narrative engineering. Through a narrative sequence, in which Abd al-Muttalib is the hero, several intriguing episodes follow one another in a causal manner and lead to the birth of a future prophet. Articulated with a historical anthropology, the narrative analysis reveals that the Sīra is the heir to the royal literature of the Ancient Near East. Using motifs and themes from the culture of the Fertile Crescent, the Sīra makes Abd al-Muttalib a royal figure in the service of legitimising the Abbasid dynasty, heir par excellence to Ishmael and restorer of the Abrahamic covenant. Cet ouvrage entend demontrer que les recits qui mettent en scene le grand-pere de Muhammad dans la Sra d'Ibn Ishaq sont le produit d'une ingénierie narrative. À travers une sequence narrative, dont Abd al-Muttalib est le heros, plusieurs episodes intriguant s'enchainent d'une maniere causale et aboutissent a la naissance d'un futur prophete. Articulee a une anthropologie historique, l'analyse narrative revele que la Sīra est l'heritiere de la litterature royale du Proche Orient Ancien. A partir de motifs et de thematiques issues de la culture du croissant fertile, la Sira fait de Abd al-Muttalib une figure royale au service de la legitimation de la dynastie abbasside, heritier par excellence d'Ismael et restaurateur de l'alliance abrahamique.

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The conquest of Damascus is one of the main events of the Islamic conquests in bilād al-Shām. Consequently, it appears with approximately 1000 narratives in the Islamic literature. This book shows the dependencies of these narratives. It therefore exemplifies the historiography from 700-1300 CE using one single event. Using the method of isnād-cum-matn-analysis the oldest forms of Islamic historiography are reconstructed. Among them are not only the version by Ibn Ishāq, but also the narratives in the futūh-work ascribed to al-Waqidī and in al-Azdī's Futūh al-Sham. Finally, the course of the events is described on the basis of the oldest reconstructed versions. Die Eroberung von Damaskus gehört zu den bedeutendsten Ereignissen der futūh im historischen Syrien. Folglich ist sie mit circa 1000 Einzelüberlieferungen ein häufig vorkommendes Element in der islamischen Literatur. Die Zusammenhänge und Abhängigkeiten der Überlieferungen zu analysieren, ist das Hauptanliegen dieser Studie. So können Aussagen über die Historiography von 700-1300 n. Chr. an Hand eines historischen Beispiels getroffen werden. Mit Hilfe der isnād-cum-matn-Analyse gelingt es zudem die frühesten Formen muslimischer Geschichtsschreibung zu rekonstruieren. Zu diesen gehören neben der Version Ibn Ishāqs auch die Erzählungen, die sich in dem Futūḥ-Werk, das al-Waqidī zugeschrieben wird, und dem Futūḥ al-Šhām al-Azdīs finden. Auf Grundlage dieser ältesten rekonstruierten Fassungen zeichnet diese Untersuchung abschließend die Eroberung von Damaskus nach.

Ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad, --- Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, --- Azdī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Damascus (Syria) --- Syria --- Islamic Empire --- Historiography. --- History --- Damascus (Syria) -- History. --- Islamic Empire -- History -- 622-661. --- Syria -- History - 634-750. --- Middle East --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Azdī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, --- Ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad, --- Wāqidī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, --- Al-Vāqidī, Muḥammad bin ʻUmar, --- Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Wāqidī, --- Vāqidī, Muḥammad bin ʻUmar al-, --- Wákidy, Aboo ʻAbd Ollah Mohammad bin Omar, --- الواقدى، محمّد بن عمر، --- واقدي، محمد بن عمر --- واقدي، محمد بن عمر، --- واقدى، محمّد بن عمر، --- Ibn Isḥāq bin Yasār, Muḥammad, --- Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, --- إبن إسحاق، محمد، --- ابن إسحاق، محمد --- ابن إسحاق، محمد، --- ابن اسحاق بن يسار، محمّد، --- ابن اسحاق، محمد، --- ابن اسحق، محمد --- Azdī al-Baṣrī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, --- Bac̦rí, Aboo Ismáʼíl Mohammad bin ʼAbd Allah al-Azdí, --- Baṣrī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, --- Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Azdī, --- أزدي، محمد بن عبد الله --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- Syrie --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Muslim Empire --- Dimashq (Syria) --- Dameśeḳ (Syria) --- Damascus --- Damas (Syria) --- Şam (Syria) --- Geschichtsschreibung. --- Islamische Literatur. --- Arabisch. --- Ibn Ishaq, Muhammad, --- Waqidi, Muhammad ibn Umar, --- Azdi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah,