History and nostalgia: Reflections on John Wansbrough's The Sectarian Milieu

In the fourth chapter of The Sectarian Milieu, John Wansbrough asks the question whether Islam gives expression to a concept of history as event or as process, the one implying a nostalgic, the other a dynamic approach to community history. This paper accepts the distinction while suggesting that th...

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Main Author: Calder, Norman 1950-1998 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 1997
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 1997, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-73
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)