Covenant_watch on Nostr: Concerning the last paragraph, Azmeh himself shares a concern for the development ...
Concerning the last paragraph, Azmeh himself shares a concern for the development Islamic History Studies beyond its beginnings in the circles of orientalist philology. "The technical and interpretative
preoccupations of nineteenth-century philological and positivist
scholarship, canonised most explicitly in Germany, still weigh heavily upon scholarship on Islam, with little headway made, until very recently, by the overall development of the historical and social sciences. This is reflected by its relative institutional and paradigmatic isolation, taking over little
from more developed fields of study, and conveying little of more general relevance to the framing of broader questions of religion and of history."
preoccupations of nineteenth-century philological and positivist
scholarship, canonised most explicitly in Germany, still weigh heavily upon scholarship on Islam, with little headway made, until very recently, by the overall development of the historical and social sciences. This is reflected by its relative institutional and paradigmatic isolation, taking over little
from more developed fields of study, and conveying little of more general relevance to the framing of broader questions of religion and of history."