Article ID: CBB856794683

In the Folds of Time: Rashīd Al-Dīn on Theories of Historicity (2019)

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By focusing on Rashīd al-Dīn's (d. 718/1318) historiographical oeuvre and here in particular his “History of the World,” this article challenges the usual approach to his Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles) and argues that his was a deeply pluralistic enterprise in a world with many centers, tremendous demographic change, high social mobility, and constantly shifting truth-claims in an ever expanding cosmos, to which Rashīd al-Dīn's method, language, and the shape of his history were perfectly adaptable. This article introduces the notion of “parallel pasts” to account for Rashīd al-Dīn's method. By placing the Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh and its author in their historical and intellectual context, this article also argues that this method is not restricted to Rashīd al-Dīn's historiography: His historiographical work ought to be seen as part of his larger theological and philosophical oeuvre into which the author placed it consciously and explicitly, an oeuvre that is, like Rashīd al-Dīn's historiography, pluralist at heart, and that could be as easily classified as “theology” or “philosophy” as “historiography.”

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Authors & Contributors
Al-Salimi, Abdulrahman
Antognazza, Maria Rosa
Antolic, Pia A.
Baldini, Ugo
Beiser, Fred
Buell, Paul D.
Journals
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
Acta Philosophica
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
History and Anthropology
Publishers
Akademie-Verlag
Aschendorff
Ashgate
Brill
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Cornell University Press
Concepts
Philosophy
Theology
History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past
Historiography
Science and religion
Metaphysics
People
Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Ammonius
Aristotle
Ashmole, Elias
Avicenna
Bacon, Roger
Time Periods
Medieval
10th century
17th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Europe
Great Britain
Persia (Iran)
China
Italy
England
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