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The Antiquarian Imagination in Multilingual Daghestan (2021)
- Author(s):
- Rebecca Ruth Gould (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- Comparison, Global & Transnational Studies, Global Literary Theory, Global Southern Epistemologies Workshop, Islamicate Studies
- Subject(s):
- Arabic literature, Literature, Modern, Historiography--Philosophy, Historical geography, History
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Caucaus, History and Memory, Islamic Thought, Modern Arabic literature, Historiographic theory, Islamic
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/sv98-4r48
- Abstract:
- This article compares three key texts in Daghestani Islamicate literature by Persian Azeri writer Bākīkhānūf (d. 1847), Lezgi polymath al-Alqadārī (d. 1910), and Qumyq (Turkic) biographer al-Durgilī (d. 1935), with a view to understanding how their authors conceptualized their role as chroniclers of times past. I draw in particular on Italian historian Arnaldo Momigliano’s account of antiquarianism in order to develop a concept of Islamic antiquarianism and to propose a new way of understanding Islamic historiographic methods and traditions. By comparing Daghestani authors' varying historical epistemologies, I also shed light on Daghestani multilingualism. I argue that Daghestani cosmopolitanism is linked to the antiquarian imagination of its most notable theorists and chroniclers of times past.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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