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Adnan Husain on Reorienting History

2025/2/21
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Adnan Husain
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Chella Ward
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Claudia
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Saeed Khan
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Salman Sayyid
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Claudia: 全球史视角的流行带来了新的机遇,但也可能导致西方中心主义的重新刻画,需要谨慎对待。 Adnan Husain: 我对全球史方法论的兴趣源于对中世纪地中海穆斯林、基督徒和犹太人之间互动关系的研究,以及对现有历史叙事中西方中心主义的批判。许多试图超越欧洲中心主义的全球史研究,仍然在不知不觉中复制了殖民主义和欧洲中心主义的视角。我试图通过整合对各个社会深入细致的理解,并探讨比较和接触的意义,来构建更全面的全球史视角,避免世界体系论那种扁平化的叙事方式。我们可以通过关注重大历史事件(如瘟疫)或气候变化等因素来重新构建历史时期,从而摆脱既有的意识形态叙事。 Salman Sayyid: 将欧洲中心主义视为空间上的固定观念,试图通过全球史视角在空间上超越欧洲的局限,忽略了欧洲中心主义在时间维度上的影响。将历史划分为古代、中世纪和现代的三分法,本身就可能重塑欧洲中心主义,因为它植根于欧洲的时间观。 Chella Ward: 地中海研究领域,无论是古典时期还是中世纪时期,都存在将区域研究伪装成普遍性研究的倾向,这本身就体现了欧洲中心主义。欧洲中心主义不仅体现在对希腊和罗马的偏爱,更在于其构建了希腊和罗马的概念本身,并将其推演到世界历史的其余部分。皮雷纳的全球史视角,虽然在地域上有所扩展,但仍然以伊斯兰教的到来作为古典世界与中世纪世界的界限,延续了西方中心主义的视角。要使全球史视角具有去殖民化的意义,需要对现有的历史分期进行重新思考,而不仅仅是在现有的框架内进行空间上的扩展。人们更容易接受对空间维度上殖民性的批判,而对时间维度上殖民性的批判则相对难以接受。我们需要将伊斯兰教作为一个重要的历史研究范畴来认真对待,而不是将其视为现代世界中的一种附加物。

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This chapter explores the challenges of writing global history without perpetuating Eurocentric biases. It discusses the limitations of the 'global' as a way of organizing history and the risks of re-inscribing Western centrism even in a global understanding. The discussion also touches upon the tripartite division of time (ancient, medieval, modern) and its problematic nature in a global context, and considers alternative temporal structures.
  • The idea of global history has limitations and risks re-inscribing Western centrism.
  • The tripartite division of time (ancient, medieval, modern) is problematic in a global context.
  • Alternative approaches to periodization are needed to avoid Eurocentric biases.

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In this episode, Chella Ward and Salman Sayyid talked to Adnan Husain about some of the challenges involved in reorienting history. We spoke about the opportunities and limitations of the idea of ‘the global’ as a way of organising history, and explored the relationship between the global and the decolonial. Adnan Husain is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen’s University, Canada. He has a particular interest in the relationship between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the medieval Mediterranean and we particularly enjoyed talking to him about the question of methodology: how do we write a new history of the world?

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