Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
( Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization )
Publication series ：Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Author： Tarif Khalidi
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 1994
E-ISBN: 9780511885907
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521465540
Subject： K135 Arab empire (632 - 1094)
Keyword： 亚洲史
Language： ENG
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Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
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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.
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