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.
| ISBN: | 9789637326738 |
| Publication date: | 20th October 2007 |
| Author: | Aziz AlAzmeh |
| Publisher: | Central European University Press an imprint of Amsterdam University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 330 pages |
| Series: | Pasts Incorporated: Studies in the Humanities - CEU Press |
| Genres: |
Historiography |