ALMOST EXACTLY MIDWAY through his new collection of essays, Formalism and
Historicity, Benjamin H.
Ragab explains the
historicity of the relationship of science and Islam and the role played by the coupling of science-and-Islam in the formulation of new scientific discourses in the region.
Bonny Ibhawoh provides a thoughtful reflection on public history,
historicity, and the meaning and origins of human rights.
Even though I do not believe that Adam was historical, I thoroughly believe in the
historicity of Jesus and the biblical testimonies of his life.
Hegel focuses on finitude as the
historicity of beings.
Lesser calls this discontinuity the "uncanny
historicity" of Q1, because the book had the effects of a ghost on the editors, theater practitioners, and readers invested in the "received text," as Lesser calls Q2 and F, of the play.
Thus when he raised questions of
historicity, he did so through the lens of interpretation and not inspiration.
The visiting Chinese journalists showed keen interest in the Moghal art and architecture and the
historicity of the Badshahi Mosque and the Lahore Fort during their visit of the monuments.
He explains Scott's subjectivity with Waverly and Ivanhoe against Zizek, his
historicity of The Antiquary and Redgauntlet against Koselleck and DeLanda, his hybridity and performativity of Rob Roy and The Talisman with Bhabha and Butler, his governmentality in The Heart of the Mid-Lothian and Quentin Durward against Foucault and Agamben, and hospitality and community in The Bride of Lammermoor and Chronicle of the Canonngate against Habermas, Derrida and a multitude of theorists.
We can read Gratton's linking of sovereignty to narrative as an examination of the
historicity of sovereignty.
prescinds from the question of
historicity: "In placing the mysteries [of Christ] within history we do not make a judgment on their
historicity.