A suite of essays on present questions of historiography, illustrated on the subject of Islamic historiography. the most matters are conceptions of time and temporality, the makes use of of the prior, historic periodization, historic categorization, and the structure of ancient gadgets, now not least these referred to as 'civilization' and 'Islam.'
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