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PhD Candidate in Islamic History of Iran, Shiraz University, Iran
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Associate Professor of Shiraz University, Iran
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Professor of Shiraz University, Iran
10.22034/jiiph.2024.59012.2478
Abstract
The Mongol invasion of the Islamic world had far-reaching structural and intellectual impacts. The uniqueness of the Mongol conquests was that they directly compelled Muslims to contemplate the issue of Kafir rule and the situation of living under a Kafir political authority. The unprecedentedness of the new circumstance, left Muslim's antecedent tradition of historiography and thinking, with no theoretical efficient explanations which could be employed in order to interpret the invasion of Kufr. Under this certain circumstance, Muslim historians and thinkers, at least during the primitive four decades, found it almost challenging to formulate a clarified sense out of their failure. The problem of the present study arises here: investigation of the theoretical and historical reactions with emphasis on the primary historiographies. The findings suggest that the anxiety experienced due to the shock of the dominance of Mongol Kufr had drowned the early Islamic literature, into a silence that dismissed analyzing the reality rationally. What the paper means by the Silence is that a conscious investigation of the causes bringing defeat was postponed, by creating a divine scheme in which the humanistic agency and responsibility of the Muslims were eliminated, in order to bring a sense of inner peace, able to calm down the anxiety of the defeat. The present paper aims to formulate what has been called “The Rhetoric of Silence”.
Yousefi, A., Fazlinejad, A., & Kheirandish, A. (2024). The Scourge of God and the Anxiety of History:
A Historiography on the Rhetoric of Silence in the Mongol Empire. Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History, (), -. doi: 10.22034/jiiph.2024.59012.2478
MLA
Arash Yousefi; Ahmad Fazlinejad; Abdolrasool Kheirandish. "The Scourge of God and the Anxiety of History:
A Historiography on the Rhetoric of Silence in the Mongol Empire". Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History, , , 2024, -. doi: 10.22034/jiiph.2024.59012.2478
HARVARD
Yousefi, A., Fazlinejad, A., Kheirandish, A. (2024). 'The Scourge of God and the Anxiety of History:
A Historiography on the Rhetoric of Silence in the Mongol Empire', Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22034/jiiph.2024.59012.2478
VANCOUVER
Yousefi, A., Fazlinejad, A., Kheirandish, A. The Scourge of God and the Anxiety of History:
A Historiography on the Rhetoric of Silence in the Mongol Empire. Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History, 2024; (): -. doi: 10.22034/jiiph.2024.59012.2478
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