General Information

Author/Creator

ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz.

Language

English.

Published

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

Physical Description

xviii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.

Series

Pasts incorporated, 1786-1438 ; v. 4

Subjects

Subject

Islam > History > Historiography.

Islamic civilization.

Islamic Empire > Historiography.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

by Aziz Al-Azmeh.

Content

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 -- Acknowledgements -- Index of subjects -- Index of proper names.

ISBN

9789637326738

9637326731

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	909/.1072 ALA		General Stacks	-

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