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It is no longer an exaggeration to state that recently a word ‘transnational /global’ has replaced ‘post-modern’ to become the most dominant and controversial discourse in the field of historiography as well as among social scientists. This article intends to explore theoretically the (im)possibility of re/over-writing an alternative mode of intellectual history, which Criticizes the linit and danger of Eurocentric mode of thinking and which is in tune with transnational dimensions and perspectives. After critical examination of what Arif Dirlik, Michel-Ralph Trouillot, Ranajit Guha, and Susan Buck-Morss have insisted respectively concerning a new and ideal model of world/universal history, the author Proposes two paths that may lead intellectual historians beyond the hegemonic territory of Euro/Western-centricism: 1) intellectual historians in a global age is required to be sensitive enough to detect a story of intellectual interaction and intercourse which had taken place at ‘contact zone’ of different societies, cultures, nations, and/or civilizations; 2) intellectual historians of the third world, in particular, should learn and practise how to stand on their head and hands to disturb the fundamentals of imperial cosmopolitanism and thus to re-erect the distorted facade of ‘local cosmopolitanism.