Published al-Tabari editions enabled analytic Islamic historiography
Evidence
From 1879 onwards, edited volumes of the tenth-century historian al-Tabari started to appear. This enabled Wellhausen and others to adopt a more analytic approach to the early history of the Arab caliphate. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 331
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Homo islamicus named a fixed Muslim essence readable from texts alone
Related
- Arabist and Islamic studies resisted the revision that reformed other area studies (similarity 0.78)
- Wellhausen applied biblical source-criticism techniques to Islamic history (similarity 0.78)
- Islamic history resists any single coherent characterization (similarity 0.78)