Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Khalidi, Tarif / Morgan, David, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, In a work that 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 premodern period viewed the past, how it recorded it, and how it sought to answer the many complex questions associated with the discipline of history.