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Antoine Borrut has written an outstanding analysis of early Islamic astrological histories, showing how historians shifted from producing astrologically focused to theologically determined chronicles in the early 900s. His insights are field-shifting and, conservatively speaking, should necessitate a re-examination of period sources for their underlying astrological structures. -- Kristina Richardson, University of Virginia

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Antoine Borrut is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. A specialist in early Islamic history and historiography, he is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. He is the author of Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids (c. 72-193/692-809) (Leiden: Brill, 2023; originally published in French in 2011 and winner of the Islamic Republic of Iran ""World book award"" and of the Syrian Studies Association book award). He also edited or co-edited several volumes: Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World: Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024); Mers et rivages d'Islam: De l'Atlantique la Mediterranee (Paris: Presses de La Sorbonne, 2023); Christians and Others in the Early Umayyad State (Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2016); Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abbassides: peuplement et dynamiques spatiales (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012); criture de l'histoire et processus de canonisation dans les premiers siecles de l'Islam Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Mediterranee (REMMM) 129 (Aix-en-Provence: 2011); and Umayyad Legacies: Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

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