TALUT AND THE JEW. ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL EVOLUTION OF AN ACCOUNT

The present paper deals with the account of the faqih Talut's vicissitudes, which originated in Ibn al-Qutiyya's work and was reproduced by several Andalusi and Eastern authors. From the historiographical analysis of that account we can conclude that the fact that some of these authors concur on reproducing a large version is due to their derivation from a common subarchetype, which was responsible for the rhetorical amplification of Ibn al-Qutiyya's original text. Therefore, the existence of a large version of Ibn al-Qutiyya's chronicle must be ruled out.