Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth - Couverture rigide

Borrut, Antoine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1399558250 ISBN 13 : 9781399558259

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

The first study to highlight the links between astrology and history in early Islam

• A new study of the construction of historical knowledge in early Islam, highlighting the neglected links between astrology and history
• Presents and analyses the entirely overlooked corpus of astrological histories
• Sheds new light on the 'gap of narrative sources' lamented by generations of scholars and reveals a major epistemic shift, a change in the regime of historicity at the turn of the ninth and tenth centuries
• Highlights the forgotten legacies of astrologer-historians and their lasting impact on Islamic historiography

Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth 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. Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth also reveals the forgotten legacies of a moment in early Islamic historiography, when history was being written according to celestial omens and planetary conjunctions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Antoine Borrut is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. A specialist in early Islamic history and historiography, he is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. He is the author of Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids (c. 72-193/692-809) (Leiden: Brill, 2023; originally published in French in 2011 and winner of the Islamic Republic of Iran “World book award” and of the Syrian Studies Association book award). He also edited or co-edited several volumes: Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World: Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024); Mers et rivages d'Islam: De l'Atlantique à la Méditerranée (Paris: Presses de La Sorbonne, 2023); Christians and Others in the Early Umayyad State (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2016); Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abbassides: peuplement et dynamiques spatiales (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012); Écriture de l’histoire et processus de canonisation dans les premiers siècles de l’Islam Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM) 129 (Aix-en-Provence: 2011); and Umayyad Legacies: Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399558250
• ISBN 13: 9781399558259
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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