From Political to Historiographical Use of Poetry About the governor Ḫālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qasrī in Ansāb al-Ašrāf of al-Balāḏurī
Résumé
The aim of this talk is to construe the role of poetry in the writing of the history of Ḫālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qasrī in order to underline, first, from the historical composition point of view, the role played by poetry and its relationship with prose in the narrative sources. Second, from a historical point of view, I mean to understand the role of the poet and his poetry in the entourage of the umayyad governor and therefore regarding the transmission of his memory