Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.