{"product_id":"astrology-and-history-in-early-antoine-borrut-9781399558259","title":"Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth","description":"\u003ci\u003eAligning Heaven and Earth in Early Islam\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eAligning Heaven and Earth in Early Islam \u003c\/i\u003ealso reveals the forgotten legacies of a moment in early Islamic historiography, when history was being written according to celestial omens and planetary conjunctions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antoine Borrut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399558250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399558259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Antoine Borrut","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48137182576895,"sku":"9781399558259","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fd620da9-5bf9-4650-a708-11b1b0f882d5.jpg?v=1770167106","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/astrology-and-history-in-early-antoine-borrut-9781399558259","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}