Dispatches from al-Tabari 1: Al-Tabari’s Direct Informants: Work on a New Data Set
In a series of eight blog posts, we share some results of experimental work on citations in three works by Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabari (d. 310/923). These ar...
Dispatches from al-Tabari
Dispatches from al-Tabari 2: Show Me the Data!
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Dispatches from al-Tabari 3: How Many People Did al-Tabari Talk To?
This is the third in a series of blog posts examining al-Tabari’s (d. 310/923) citations in his Taʾrikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-...
Dispatches from al-Tabari 4: The Form of al-Tabari’s Sources: His Probable Notebooks
In the preceding posts, we showed that al-Tabari (d. 310/923) used the phrases ‘he told me’ and ‘he told us’ (haddathani/haddathana) in the Taʾrikh al-rusul ...
Dispatches from al-Tabari 5: Reconstructing al-Tabari’s Notebooks
In our previous blog post, we argued that al-Tabari (d. 310/923) had to hand an extensive written collection consisting of sets of well-written notes.
Dispatches from al-Tabari 6: Sources Common to All of al-Tabari’s Works
The argument we are advancing in these blog posts is that when al-Tabari (d. 310/923) created his Taʾrikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk, Jamiʿ al-bayan ʿan taʾwil ay a...
Dispatches from al-Tabari 7: Text Reuse Alignments
Post 7: Text Reuse Alignments
Dispatches from al-Tabari 8: The Afterlife of al-Tabari in Quotations
In this series of blog posts, we have argued for the imperative to rethink writerly culture in ways that allow for a more meaningful exploration of al-Tabari...