Open AccessThe presentation of the plague of 749/1348 and the fitna of 762/1361 by the Damascene scholar Ibn Kathîr
Author(s) -
Irmeli Perho
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
babylon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2535-3098
pISSN - 1503-5727
DOI - 10.5617/ba.9404
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , narrative , archetype , focus (optics) , plague (disease) , history , literature , art , medicine , ancient history , radiology , physics , optics
Two of Ibn Kathîr’s detailed reports are analysed as stories and the aim is to identify the message he wants to transmit through them. The focus is on Ibn Kathîr’s narrative techniques and a connection is drawn to Hayden White’s archetypes of stories.