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Islam --- Islamic civilization. --- History --- Historiography. --- Islamic Empire --- Historiography.

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Islam --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédies --- Islamic civilization --- Islamic countries --- 297 --- Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Encyclopédies --- Islamic civilization - Encyclopedias --- Islam - Encyclopedias --- Islamic countries - Encyclopedias

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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.

Islam --- Islamic civilization. --- Civilization, Islamic --- Muslim civilization --- Civilization --- Civilization, Arab --- Historiography. --- Research --- Islamic Empire --- Historiography, History, Islam, Islamic civilization, Political philosophy, Religion. --- History

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Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their construction of a pure and unadulterated Islamic past, to which they strive to return by purging foreign or unauthentic elements from their religion. Next to these attempts, another more traditional view sees the influence between the Western and the Islamic world in linear and teleological terms. Knowledge was transmitted, so to speak,

Islamic civilization. --- Civilization, Western --- Islamic civilization --- Civilization, Islamic --- Muslim civilization --- Civilization --- Civilization, Arab --- Islamic influences. --- Western influences. --- Occidental influences --- Muslim influences --- Islam --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- Middle East --- Mediterranean countries --- Civilization, Islamic.

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297 --- Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Islam and politics --- Islamic civilization --- Islam --- Civilization, Islamic --- Muslim civilization --- Civilization --- Civilization, Arab --- Islamic countries --- History.