A Reading of the Biography of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars, from Biographical Illusion to Political Fiction
Dr. Hamdi Khalifa Abid
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35682/jjall.v15i2.298Keywords:
Political Fiction, Purpose-Built Structure, Narrative Structure, Power, Symbolic BodyAbstract
In this article we have adopted an open approach, relying onRepresentation and Political Fiction, which makes the Identity of the ruling personalities composite of a Natural body and a Political one.In this context, we studied two Biographies of two structurally different political figures, the Biography of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and the Biography of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars.
The first is of a Purpose-Built Structure whose hero is drowning in asceticism and the second with a Narrative Structure marked by violence.Whatever the difference, they have a common denominator: thePolitical Body. The Purpose-Built Structure covers the weakness of the Political Body with great hermitism. However, the biography of the Narrative Structureis covered with power.
That is the story of the Political Body between Biogeographic Illusion and Political Fiction.
