for marshall hodgson, the history of the islamic civilization is not an event, rather it is a chain of continuous events happening with a global harmony and historical continuity, enjoying a spirit among different cultures and nations and throughout historical periods. the continuity of historical events in the islamic world does not amount to the interconnection of all events in the islamic hi...

175 Further Reading Bulliet, Richward W. (1979) Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period, An Essay in Quantitative History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Hodgson, Marshall G. (1974) The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lapidus, Ira M. (1988) A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University P...

Classical and contemporary civilizational analysis has not sat comfortably with theoretical constructions of the intercultural or their empirical applications. A ‘classical era’ civilizations generated a program research problems that was productive in critical multidisciplinary ways limited scope vision others, but this failed to generate provisional notion intercultural. Contemporary improves...

What is the relevance of Persianate as a category analysis in world wherein even literature continues to be framed literary history discrete nations? First coined by historian Marshall Hodgson 1974, initially referred cultures such Georgian, Armenian, Chaghatay, Urdu, and Ottoman, which were heavily influenced lexically culturally Persian without themselves being related linguistically. Gradual...

Uno de los problemas a la hora estudiar las sociedades islámicas es, precisamente, que todas ellas son designadas con un término alude religión, aunque estudios sobre mismas raramente se refieran esta, ni esa denominación permite explicar enorme variedad historias pueblos comparten. En años sesenta del siglo XX Marshall Hodgson trató resolver el problema recurriendo creación nuevos términos par...