Astrology and History in Early Islam
Aligning Heaven and Earth
Series: Critical Approaches to Arabic Historiography;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 28 February 2026
- ISBN 9781399558259
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 19 black and white figures 700
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Short description:
The first study to highlight the links between astrology and history in early Islam.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: the Centrality of Astrology
Part I. Astrology, Empire and History
1. Imagined Beginnings: Founding Baghdad and Writing History
2. Astrologers as Historians
3. Planetary Conjunctions and Islamic History
Part II. Layers of Forgetting
4. The Unthinkable Scientific Continuity: Erasing the Umayyad Century
5. Astrologer-Historian: Theophilus of Edessa Reconsidered
6. The Lost History of a Polymath: Forgetting al-Khwa?rizmi? the Historian
Part III. The Making of Islamic Historiography
7. Writing the History of the Future
8. A Moment in Islamic Historiography
Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting Astrological Histories
Appendix: Main Astrological Histories
Sources
Bibliography
Index
