This section of the book sets off with contestations on world history, beginning with Michael Geyer’s analysis of the unknown and precautious work of Marshall G.S. Hodgson who, since the 1940s had attempted to...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
In this section, we engage in a critical dialogue with the idea of periodisation types, taking as our starting point the typology developed by Jörn Rüsen and introduced in chapter 2 “Making Periodisation possible.”...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Heather Ferguson <1> The fields of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies remain engulfed in the politics of encounter configured between the metageographies of “east” and “west” that animates Edward Said’s Orientalism.[1] Despite nearly...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Anubhuti Maurya Introduction <1> This discussion emerges from my experience of teaching medieval Indian history in an undergraduate classroom in Delhi University.[1] The classroom has been the space of contestation between the...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Bernard D. Cooperman <1> The call for papers that brought us together emphasized the problematics of periodization (Periodisierung), the historiographic process of chopping up the temporal continuum by assigning start and end points...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint David Moshfegh <1> In 1910, Carl Heinrich Becker, a young pioneering scholar of the emergent field of Islamwissenschaft, founded the journal, Der Islam, the first organ committed to the discipline in Germany. Becker...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Thomas Maissen, Barbara Mittler, and Pierre Monnet <1> When I was a small boy and was taught history … I used to think of history as a sort of long scroll with thick...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Özlem Caykent December 2017, Berlin <1> The spine of history is said to be chronology. However, the same spine is also a very problematic aspect of it. We easily narrate and line up...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Open peer review is a process by which to assess publications. Open peer review is a growing method in scholarly communication and can be placed in the context of open science. It is an...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Özen Nergis Dolcerocca <1> James Joyce’s vision of hell, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is a “great hall,” dark and silent, with a “great clock” ticking...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Sanjay Subrahmanyam I. <1> In the 1620s, Henry Lord, a Protestant chaplain employed by the English East India Company, found himself in the great port of Surat in western India. Here, in...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Milinda Banerjee <1> A periodization-scheme, like any other kind of concept-work, may bear either (or often, both) the traces of imposing mastery—through the stratification and government of time—or (as well as)...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Michael Geyer <1> In his time, Marshall G.S. Hodgson (1922–1968) was a highly regarded historian of Islam at the University of Chicago. He is best known for his three volumeVenture of...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Jörn Rüsen 1. Levels of time in historical thinking <1> Periodization is a cognitive procedure by which the totality of history is divided into several parts. This partition makes it easier...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context
Preprint Justus Nipperdey <1> Some schemes of periodization and their respective terminologies seem to be rather straightforward—to those who use them, to those who uphold them, but also to those who criticize them. This...| Chronologics. Periodisation in a Global Context