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Edinburgh University Press Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth (Critical Approaches to Arabic Historiography)

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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.

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Brand: Edinburgh University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1399558250
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Middle East
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 February 2026
Listed Since: 09 July 2025

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