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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.

ISBN-13

9780521589383

ISBN-10

052158938X

Weight

0.80 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.67 x 9.00 In

List Price

$52.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

268 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

1996-09-26



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