Overview
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.
- | Author: Tarif Khalidi
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 26, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 268 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 052158938X
- | ISBN-13: 9780521589383
