Research Catalog

Title

The times of history : universal topics in Islamic historiography / by Aziz Al-Azmeh.

Author

ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz

Publication

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2007.

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Description

xviii, 310 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality, the uses of the past, historical periodization, historical categorization, and the constitution of historical objects, not least those called "civilization" and "Islam." One of the aims of the book is to apply to Islamic materials the standard conceptual equipment used in historical study, and to exercise large-scale comparativist outlook."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Pasts incorporated, 1786-1438 ; v. 4

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Pasts incorporated v. 4.

Alternative Title

Universal topics in Islamic historiography

Subject

• Islam > Historiography
• Islamic civilization
• Islamic Empire > Historiography

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Historical categorization -- Tropes and temporalities of historiographic romanticism, modern and Islamic -- Islam and the history of civilizations -- Typological time, patterning and the past appropriated -- Chronophagous discourse: a study of the clerico-legal appropriation of the world in an Islamic tradition -- The Muslim canon from late antiquity to the era of modernism -- History of the future -- God's chronography and dissipative time -- Rhetoric for the senses: a consideration of Muslim paradise narratives -- Distractions of Clio: impasses and perspectives of historians' history -- Islamic political thought: current historiography and the frame of history -- Monotheistic monarchy.

ISBN

• 9789637326738 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9637326731 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007001303

OCLC

• 77831055
• SCSB-12836602

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library