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.
| ISBN | 9780521589383 |
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| Category | Islamic Art, Architecture, and Urbanism |
| Call number | 90909 ARK |
| Physical description | xiii, 250 pages:23 cm. |
| Edition year | 1994 |
| Bibliographical references? | Yes |
| Publisher name | Cambridge University Press |
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| Publication year | 1994 |
| Place of publication | Cambridge, Eng. |
| Language | English |
| Is series? | Yes |
| Series name | Cambridge Studies In Islamic Civilization |