Astrology and History in Early Islam

Aligning Heaven and Earth

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Antoine Borrut

Verlag:

Edinburgh University Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: VKPQDL5

EAN: 9781399558259

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 25.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 193.–

Beschreibung

Aligning Heaven and Earth in Early Islam. focuses on the construction of historical knowledge during the first centuries of Islam (7th-10th centuries CE) and sheds light on the much-neglected genre of astrological histories. It contends that astrologers played a significant, albeit totally overlooked, role in the making of Islamic historiography. The volume documents a unique moment in historical writing and reveals enduring legacies of this exceptional corpus of texts and historical horoscopes. The flourishing and eventual vanishing of astrological histories reveal broader historiographical trends, most notably a shift of cultural brokers serving as arbitrators of (historical) knowledge and a change of regime of historicity. Aligning Heaven and Earth in Early Islam. also reveals the forgotten legacies of a moment in early Islamic historiography, when history was being written according to celestial omens and planetary conjunctions.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Antoine Borrut

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

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