Times of History : : Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography / / Aziz Al-Azmeh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Al-Azmeh, Aziz,
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Azmeh, Aziz,; White, Hayden,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword: Beyond Orientalism -- Preface -- I. Historical Categorization -- 1. Tropes and Temporalities of Historiographic Romanticism, Modern and Islamic -- 2. Islam and the History of Civilizations -- II. Typological Time, Patterning and the Past Appropriated -- 3. Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of the Clerico-Legal -- 4. The Muslim Canon from Late Antiquity to the Era of Modernism -- III. History of the Future -- 5. God’s Chronography and Dissipative Time -- 6. Rhetoric for the Senses: A Consideration of Muslim Paradise Narratives -- IV. Distractions of Clio: Impasses and Perspectives of Historians’ History -- 7. Islamic Political Thought: Current Historiography and the Frame of History -- 8. Monotheistic Monarchy -- Acknowledgements -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Proper Names