Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside: Counter-History or Its Parody

by Ephraim Nissan and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Counter-hagiography and counter-biography besmirch foundational figures held dear by different religious, political, or social groups. Such phenomena figure prominently in the history of religion and conflicts. For example, what we know of the Mazdakite revolution in pre-Islamic Iran/Iraq comes from revilers. The anti-Judaic polemicist from ninth-century Afghanistan and Iraq, Hiwi ("Snake"), was actually called Ḥəyyāwī...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031460685
• ISBN13: 9783031460685
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 7.9"