Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In his Venture of Islam, posthumously published in 1975, Marshall Hodgson presented a grandiose scheme of his view of the history of the Islamic world, in which he opposed the Eurocentric view of history in most contemporary studies of Islam. To support his novel approach he introduced a number of neologisms as technical terms, of which ‘Islamicate’ and ‘Persianate’ became widely known. In the present essay I investigate critically the provenance of this terminology and I take to issue the growing use and popularity of these and similar terms in contemporary studies of Islam.
Source: Religions
DOI: 10.3390/rel17020199
Author: Kees Versteegh
Institution: Radboud University Nijmegen
Language: English
Topic: Islamic Studies and History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,172
OpenAlex ID: W7127989364