ABSTRACT
This postscript considers a number of methodological questions related to writing the history of early modern science in the Islamic world. It investigates how al-Damanhūrī’s character, imbued with the worth of modern science, was conceived in the colonial and postcolonial constructions of history and proposes a different mode of writing these historical narratives. This postscript argues for deploying postcolonial and queer theoretical interventions in understanding the place of science, and the writing of history in the early modern, and precolonial context.
