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Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer
Abstract
The growing acceptance to challenge long-held notions have led to many new insights and opened up ways to access the Islamic scholarly tradition anew. This applies especially when it comes to the categories of Islamic and Secular. The present paper focuses on the works by Tarif Khalidi, a historian of Palestinian origin, and Thomas Bauer, a German scholar specializing in Arabic language and literature, and tries to achieve three objectives. First, applying the concept of cultural ambiguity to the formative period and observing it in its formative stages. Second, showing how and when a secular approach to history became the norm. Third, demonstrating how Muslim scholars demarcated a sharʿī realm in which the subject matters of the different sciences were in one way or another dealing with the revelation. This self-imposed boundary opened up a space for other discourses with their epistemologies based on reason and empirical knowledge. From a very early stage, history was to be found in this non-sharʿī realm of secular sciences.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
November 30, 2020
Submission Date
October 14, 2020
Acceptance Date
November 23, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Volume: 8 Number: 2
APA
Çolak, Y., & Chizari, N. (2020). Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer. Dergiabant, 8(2), 460-487. https://doi.org/10.33931/abuifd.810571
AMA
1.Çolak Y, Chizari N. Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer. Dergiabant. 2020;8(2):460-487. doi:10.33931/abuifd.810571
Chicago
Çolak, Yaşar, and Navid Chizari. 2020. “Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer”. Dergiabant 8 (2): 460-87. https://doi.org/10.33931/abuifd.810571.
EndNote
Çolak Y, Chizari N (November 1, 2020) Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer. Dergiabant 8 2 460–487.
IEEE
[1]Y. Çolak and N. Chizari, “Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer”, Dergiabant, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 460–487, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.33931/abuifd.810571.
ISNAD
Çolak, Yaşar - Chizari, Navid. “Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer”. Dergiabant 8/2 (November 1, 2020): 460-487. https://doi.org/10.33931/abuifd.810571.
JAMA
1.Çolak Y, Chizari N. Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer. Dergiabant. 2020;8:460–487.
MLA
Çolak, Yaşar, and Navid Chizari. “Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer”. Dergiabant, vol. 8, no. 2, Nov. 2020, pp. 460-87, doi:10.33931/abuifd.810571.
Vancouver
1.Yaşar Çolak, Navid Chizari. Islamic or Secular History: Reassessing the Categories of Muslim Historical Writing by Tarif Khalidi and Thomas Bauer. Dergiabant. 2020 Nov. 1;8(2):460-87. doi:10.33931/abuifd.810571