The times of history [[electronic resource] ] : universal topics in Islamic historiography / / by Aziz Al-Azmeh

• Autore: ʻAẓmah ʻAzīz
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Budapest, : Central European University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Disciplina: 909/.1072
• Soggetto topico: Islam - Historiography; Islamic civilization
• Soggetto geografico: Islamic Empire Historiography
• Soggetto non controllato: Historiography, History, Islam, Islamic civilization, Political philosophy, Religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The times of history
• ISBN: 978-6-15521-140-9; 9786155211409; 615-5211-40-X; 1-281-37702-3; 9786611377021; 1-4356-1235-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777660503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pasts incorporated.