Aziz Al-Azmeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 295074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aziz Al-Azmeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aziz |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Azmeh |
| SIGNATURE | AL-AZMEH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
La royauté sacrée comme forme élémentaire: Monothéisme et énonciation théologico-politique du pouvoir de l’Antiquité tardive à l’islam médiéval
Caliphal Sovereignty or the Immanence of Transcendence
A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes. A Sourcebook By Stephen J. Shoemaker
This book is a ‘curated’ anthology of what the curator considers to be witnesses to the momentous events associated with the early, Paleo-Muslim phase of the emergence of a new world religion, Islam, associated with the dominion of Arab imperial dynasties. It consists of translations of works by twenty authors thought by the editor and commentator, Steven Shoemaker, to be contemporary or near-contemporary with the events narrated. Each text or gr…
Further to the Pre-Muḥammadan Allāh
This article is concerned with the divinity of Allāh before Muḥammad. It is focussed on narrow and broad issues of method, and particularly on inferential evidence for the incidence and nature of this divinity on the evidence of Arabic poetry. It casts a critical look on retrojection Islamic theological concepts to the interpretation of earlier Arabic poetry, and proposes that the now common notion of “pagan monotheism” refers to no actually exis…
Secularism and its Enemies
Lena Salaymeh. The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions
Lena Salaymeh’s The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a most welcome study of two distinct but interrelated issues. One is the state of the field of historical studies of Muslim jurisprudence in a general and synoptic way. The other comprises three substantive legal issues, both in themselves and by way of illustrating broader conceptual and historiographical issues: the treatment of prisoners of war, more specifically, the legitimacy of their executi…
The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People
Based on epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional literary sources and critical review of the extensive relevant scholarship, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion and imperial polity. It reassesses the development of the imperial monotheism of the New Rome, and considers the history of the Arabs as an integral part of Late Antiquity, including Arab ethnogenes…
Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People
Ibn Khaldun: A Reinterpretation
The primacy of the historical: the criterion of historical significance the structure of the historical state. The problematization of history: an anatomy of the Muqaddima the Muqaddima - epitome with glosses the analogical region. The historicity of Kitab al-'Ibar.
Civilization as a political disposition
This paper outlines a number of changes in social and political thought following the momentous events of 1989: the rise of postmodernism, identitarian politics and the transformation of notions of race into culture. It indicates origins for this drift in ideas to be found in the heritage of anti-Enlightenment polemics associated with political romanticism, in Europe as well as globally, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It then concentr…
German orientalism. The study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945
Ursula Wokoeck, Routledge, London, 2009, xvi +333 pp., (hardback) ISBN-13: 978-0-415-46490-1, (ebook) ISBN-13: 978-0-203-88008 This book, based on a doctoral thesis that seems to have been unedited
The Genesis of Islam in the Light of History: The First MHJ Annual Lecture Delivered in New Delhi on 27 November 2008
Faced with the choice between two themes that I suggested I might address this evening, the organisers of this event preferred me to speak as an historians' historian, rather than to opt for a topic of more general or current interest, and I have agreed to do so. Yet I should nevertheless be dissatisfied if those among you who do not particularly wish to be lectured to by historians were to be irked by an academic disquisition on some arcane matt…
Jack Goody and the Location of Islam
This article considers Jack Goody's studies of Islam in their various contexts. It starts with a consideration of Goody's comparative historico-anthropological studies of specific topics such as flowers, cuisine, and kinship and the family, and of his studies of wider range and broader import. It analyses the elements and main thrust of his historical approach, paying attention to the conception of comparativism he uses, placing these in the cont…
Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence
Events over recent years have increased the global interest in Islam. This volume seeks to combat generalisations about the Muslim presence in Europe by illuminating its diversity across Europe and offering a more realistic, highly differentiated picture. It contends with the monist concept of identity that suggests Islam is the shared and main definition of Muslims living in Europe. The contributors also explore the influence of the European Uni…
Times of History: Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography
This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality, the uses of the past, historical periodisation, historical categorisation, and the constitution of historical objects, not least those called "civilisation" and "Islam". One of the aims of the book is to apply to Islamic materials the standard conceptual equipment u…
Preamble
God’s Chronography and Dissipative Time: Vaticinium ex Eventu in Classical and Medieval Muslim Apocalyptic Traditions
The following study discusses the structure of time in apocalyptic discourse, taking as an example apocalyptic traditions of mainstream Sunni traditionalism in the classical age of Islam and the Islamic Middle Ages. The main material is drawn from the repertoire of traditions assembled in Baghdad by Nu‘aym b. zammad in A.D. 833-838, the first comprehensive collection of such traditions, and from eschatological history of al-Barazan -, completed i…
Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian, and Pagan Polities
This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian and Byzantine. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.…
Civilization, Culture and the New Barbarians
There has been a revival in western thought of romantic ideas of society and history that had, before the Second World War, been associated with conservative and right-wing political movements and ideologies. The emphasis on an unreflected notion of 'culture', postmodernist relativism, scenarios of the wars of civilizations, fundamentalist reclamations of authenticity and multiculturalist celebrations of difference constitute a revival of irratio…
Mosaic Society Revisited: The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey . Fouad Ajami
Mosaic Society Revisited
Canonization and Decanonization: Papers presented to the International Conference of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (Lisor) held at Leiden 9-10 January 1997
This volume contains the papers read at the Leiden Conference on Canonization and Decanonization of 9-10 January 1997. The emphasis in this rich and wide-ranging contribution to the subject is on the processes of canonization and decanonization in several religions and on the phenomenon of religious canons as well. It has two sections: (De)canonization and the History of Religions, and (De)canonization and Modern Society. In the first section pro…
Muslim History: Reflections on Periodisation and Categorisation
This article seeks to review the common assumption of a clear, largely endogenous, continuous and singular medieval period in Muslim history. The assumption implicates a romantic vision of history as one of continuity, and the possibility of writing the history of large-scale masses as one of singularity, and that the historical masses can quite satisfactorily be identified by transhistorical nominatives such as Islam, Hellenism, or the West. Cor…
The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism . Regina M. Schwartz
A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to the Sunnīuṣūl al-fiqh . Wael B. Hallaq
Islams and Modernities (Phronesis)
Islams and Modernities
Race and slavery in the Middle East: An historical enquiry
Journal Article Race and slavery in the Middle East: an historical enquiry Get access Race and slavery in the Middle East: an historical enquiry. By Bernard Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. 184pp. Index. £19.50. ISBN 0 19 506283 3. Aziz Al-Azmeh Aziz Al-Azmeh 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 4, October 1991, Page 826, https://doi.org…
Civilization, Culture and the New Barbarians
There has been a revival in western thought of romantic ideas of society and history that had, before the Second World War, been associated with conservative and right-wing political movements and ideologies. The emphasis on an unreflected notion of 'culture', postmodernist relativism, scenarios of the wars of civilizations, fundamentalist reclamations of authenticity and multiculturalist celebrations of difference constitute a revival of irratio…
Rhetoric for the Senses: A Consideration of Muslim Paradise Narratives
Times of History: Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography
This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality, the uses of the past, historical periodisation, historical categorisation, and the constitution of historical objects, not least those called "civilisation" and "Islam". One of the aims of the book is to apply to Islamic materials the standard conceptual equipment u…
German orientalism. The study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945
Ursula Wokoeck, Routledge, London, 2009, xvi +333 pp., (hardback) ISBN-13: 978-0-415-46490-1, (ebook) ISBN-13: 978-0-203-88008 This book, based on a doctoral thesis that seems to have been unedited
Jack Goody and the Location of Islam
This article considers Jack Goody's studies of Islam in their various contexts. It starts with a consideration of Goody's comparative historico-anthropological studies of specific topics such as flowers, cuisine, and kinship and the family, and of his studies of wider range and broader import. It analyses the elements and main thrust of his historical approach, paying attention to the conception of comparativism he uses, placing these in the cont…
Muslim History: Reflections on Periodisation and Categorisation
This article seeks to review the common assumption of a clear, largely endogenous, continuous and singular medieval period in Muslim history. The assumption implicates a romantic vision of history as one of continuity, and the possibility of writing the history of large-scale masses as one of singularity, and that the historical masses can quite satisfactorily be identified by transhistorical nominatives such as Islam, Hellenism, or the West. Cor…
Muslim Genealogies of Knowledge
Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies
Journal Article Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies Get access Aziz Al-Azmeh Aziz Al-Azmeh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1991, Pages 44–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/32.1.44 Published: 01 October 1991
Ibn Khaldun: An Essay in Reinterpretation
Ibn Khaldun in Modern Scholarship
Ibn Khaldun and Islamic Ideology
Histoire et narration dans l'historiographie arabe
L'histoire peut bien être le domaine dans lequel la raison cesse d'employer sa célèbre ' ruse ', il n'en reste pas moins que notre perception des ruses de la raison s'exprime sous la forme du récit et s'inscrit dans le langage, qui est la substance du récit. L'idée selon laquelle la raison, comme toute autre chose, emploie sa ruse dans le récit et le discours, s'inscrit dans la tradition des rhétoriciens. Depuis l'Antiquité en effet, jusqu'à la r…
Christianity and the World Religions
Orthodoxy and Hanbalite Fideism
Islamic Law. Social and Historical Contexts
Race and slavery in the Middle East: An historical enquiry
Journal Article Race and slavery in the Middle East: an historical enquiry Get access Race and slavery in the Middle East: an historical enquiry. By Bernard Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. 184pp. Index. £19.50. ISBN 0 19 506283 3. Aziz Al-Azmeh Aziz Al-Azmeh 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 4, October 1991, Page 826, https://doi.org…
Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies
Journal Article Islamist Revivalism and Western Ideologies Get access Aziz Al-Azmeh Aziz Al-Azmeh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1991, Pages 44–53, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/32.1.44 Published: 01 October 1991
The Crisis of Modern Islam: A Preindustrial Culture in the Scientific-Technological Age
Islam in European Thought . Albert Hourani
Muslim Genealogies of Knowledge
Islams and Modernities (Phronesis)
Islams and Modernities
Rhetoric for the Senses: A Consideration of Muslim Paradise Narratives
Canonization and Decanonization: Papers presented to the International Conference of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (Lisor) held at Leiden 9-10 January 1997
This volume contains the papers read at the Leiden Conference on Canonization and Decanonization of 9-10 January 1997. The emphasis in this rich and wide-ranging contribution to the subject is on the processes of canonization and decanonization in several religions and on the phenomenon of religious canons as well. It has two sections: (De)canonization and the History of Religions, and (De)canonization and Modern Society. In the first section pro…
Muslim History: Reflections on Periodisation and Categorisation
This article seeks to review the common assumption of a clear, largely endogenous, continuous and singular medieval period in Muslim history. The assumption implicates a romantic vision of history as one of continuity, and the possibility of writing the history of large-scale masses as one of singularity, and that the historical masses can quite satisfactorily be identified by transhistorical nominatives such as Islam, Hellenism, or the West. Cor…
The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism . Regina M. Schwartz
A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to the Sunnīuṣūl al-fiqh . Wael B. Hallaq
Mosaic Society Revisited: The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey . Fouad Ajami
Mosaic Society Revisited
Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian, and Pagan Polities
This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian and Byzantine. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.…
Civilization, Culture and the New Barbarians
There has been a revival in western thought of romantic ideas of society and history that had, before the Second World War, been associated with conservative and right-wing political movements and ideologies. The emphasis on an unreflected notion of 'culture', postmodernist relativism, scenarios of the wars of civilizations, fundamentalist reclamations of authenticity and multiculturalist celebrations of difference constitute a revival of irratio…
God’s Chronography and Dissipative Time: Vaticinium ex Eventu in Classical and Medieval Muslim Apocalyptic Traditions
The following study discusses the structure of time in apocalyptic discourse, taking as an example apocalyptic traditions of mainstream Sunni traditionalism in the classical age of Islam and the Islamic Middle Ages. The main material is drawn from the repertoire of traditions assembled in Baghdad by Nu‘aym b. zammad in A.D. 833-838, the first comprehensive collection of such traditions, and from eschatological history of al-Barazan -, completed i…
Preamble
Islamic Studies and History (27 works) · History (24 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Islam (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · History (12 works) · Art (11 works)