ABSTRACT
In Chapter 5 we examined Abn Shmma’s and Ibn Wmxil’s textual rooms of manoeuvre by considering the modes of emplotment of their narratives. The discussion of ‘final section’ and ‘historicization’ showed how the prefiguration of the narratives in the modes of Stasis and Process was crucial for specific textual decisions. In this way the texts are mainly assessed with regard to the levels of inclusion/exclusion and macro-arrangement (the different position of the same reports in the two texts).
