Astrology and History in Early Islam
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-5825-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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).
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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: the Centrality of Astrology
Part I. Astrology, Empire and History
1. Imagined Beginnings: Founding Baghdad and Writing History
2. Astrologers as Historians
3. Planetary Conjunctions and Islamic History
Part II. Layers of Forgetting
4. The Unthinkable Scientific Continuity: Erasing the Umayyad Century
5. Astrologer-Historian: Theophilus of Edessa Reconsidered
6. The Lost History of a Polymath: Forgetting al-Khwārizmī the Historian
Part III. The Making of Islamic Historiography
7. Writing the History of the Future
8. A Moment in Islamic Historiography
Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting Astrological Histories
Appendix: Main Astrological Histories
Sources
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Critical Approaches to Arabic Historiography |
| Zusatzinfo | 19 black and white figures |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Astrologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-5825-0 / 1399558250 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-5825-9 / 9781399558259 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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