Article ID: CBB001200947

Transition, Flow, and Divergent Times (2013)

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The Western academy's growing interest in the contemporary arts in the Arab world illustrates the desire to map Islam---problematic as this term is---within the global history of cultures and to integrate it into Western models of the writing and documenting of the past. As positive and corrective as these academic approaches may seem, the notion of recording time---that is, writing history---is still firmly bound at the beginning of the 21st century to the idea of continuity, and the pattern of Western-centric thinking imposes that notion upon contemporary artists and art historians. Yet the political changes and spontaneous eruptions that the Middle East and North Africa are experiencing, especially since the beginning of 2011, defy and resist conventional interpretations of historical processes and therefore demand a rethinking of the configuration of the past.

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Description Roundtable on how “the desire to map Islam...within the global history of cultures and to integrate it into “Western” models of the writing and documenting of the past” is problematic. (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Brentjes, Sonja
Cohen, H. Floris
Ben-Zaken, Avner
Berggren, John Lennart
Biswas, Arun Kumar
Brooke, John Hedley
Journals
Journal of Early Modern History
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
British Journal for the History of Science
History and Theory
Indian Journal of History of Science
Publishers
Springer
Lehigh University
Cambridge University Press
Amsterdam University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Western world, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural comparison
Islam
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Historiography
People
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Draper, John William
Ibn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan
Madkour, I.
Peurbach, Georg von
Time Periods
Medieval
Modern
Renaissance
Early modern
17th century
20th century
Places
Europe
China
India
Ottoman Empire
Asia
Greece
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