Arabic historical thought in the classical period:

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 ho...

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Beteilige Person: Khalidi, Tarif 1938- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1994
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583650
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583650
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583650
Zusammenfassung: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
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Umfang:1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages)
ISBN:9780511583650
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511583650