Book Details
Orange Code:93081
Paperback:328 pages
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1. Tropes and Temporalities of Historiographic Romanticism, Modern and Islamic2. Islam and the History of Civilizations3. Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of the Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition4. The Muslim Canon from Late Antiquity to the Era of Modernism5. God's Chronography and Dissipative Time6. Rhetoric for the Senses: A Consideration of Muslim Paradise Narratives7. Islamic Political Thought: Current Historiography and the Frame of History8. Monotheistic Monarchy
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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.'
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