The times of history: universal topics in Islamic historiography

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 Islam...

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Main Author: Aẓmah, ʿAzīz (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Budapest ; New York Central European University Press 2007
Series:Pasts incorporated. CEU studies in the humanities 4
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Summary: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 and narration in Arab historiography -- 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 -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XVIII, 310 S.
ISBN:9789637326738

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