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ARABIC HISTORICAL THOUGHT IN THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
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| By: |
Tarif Khalidi, David Morgan |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£90.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521465540 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521465540 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1994 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization |
| Pages: |
268 |
| Description: |
A survey of an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years. |
| Synopsis: |
Thinking and writing about the past has always been of critical importance to the way that any culture or civilization views itself and its role in the world. In a work which surveys an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years, Tarif Khalidi examines how Arabic-Islamic culture of the pre-modern period viewed the past, how it recorded it, and how it sought to answer the many complex questions associated with the discipline of history. The author combines a chronological and a topical approach to place the tradition within its wider intellectual context, while quotations from historians across the period introduce the English-speaking reader to some of the principal texts of Arabic-Islamic culture. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |