times of history
Subtitle: universal topics in Islamic historiography
By: by Aziz Al-Azmeh
Series: CEU studies in the humanities
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789637326738
Subjects: Islam -- History -- Historiography; Civilization, Islamic; Islamic Empire -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Historical categorization; title: Tropes and temporalities of historiographic romanticism, modern and Islamic; title: Islam and the history of civilizations; title: Typological time, patterning and the past appropriated; title: Chronophagous discourse: a study of the clerico-legal appropriation of the world in an Islamic tradition; title: The muslim canon from late antiquity to the era of modernism; title: History and narration in Arab historiography; title: History of the future; title: God's chronography and dissipative time; title: Rhetoric for the senses: a consideration of Muslim paradise narratives; title: Distractions of Clio: impasses and perspectives of historians' history; title: Islamic political thought: current historiography and the frame of history; title: Monotheistic monarchy; title: Acknowledgements; title: Index