Astrology and History in Early Islam

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-Khwarizmi 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

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• Astrologia
• Islão
• História do Oriente Médio
• Historiografia
• História Antiga: c 500 a c 1450/1500

Abbasids; Astrology; Cultural History; Early Islam; Historiography; Historical Memory; Regimes of Historicity; Umayyads