In this Book
- Times of History: Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Central European University Press
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 periodisation, historical categorisation, and the constitution of historical objects, not least those called "civilisation" 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 a large-scale comparativist outlook.
Table of Contents
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- Foreword: Beyond Orientalism
- pp. ix-xiv
- I. Historical Categorization
- II. Typological Time, Patterning and the Past Appropriated
- III. History of the Future
- 5. God’s Chronography and Dissipative Time
- pp. 138-163
- IV. Distractions of Clio: Impasses and Perspectives of Historians’ History
- 8. Monotheistic Monarchy
- pp. 266-289
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 290-291
- Index of Subjects
- pp. 292-305
- Index of Proper Names
- pp. 306-309
Additional Information
ISBN
9786155211409
Related ISBN(s)
9789637326738
MARC Record
OCLC
182797509
Pages
330
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No