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A collection of eight essays by renowned historian Aziz Al‑Azmeh, exploring universal questions in historiography through the lens of Islamic historical writing. Major topics include historiographic Romanticism, typological time, “sacred” history, political thought, and critiques of cultural essentialism. Al‑Azmeh challenges myths of Islam as a static civilizational entity and advocates a rigorous, comparative historiographic approach rooted in Enlightenment principles.

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