@book{303,
  author = {'Abd Duri},
  editor = {Lawrence Conrad and Fred Donner},
  title = {The Rise of Historical Writing among the Arabs},
  abstract = {<p>Edited and translated by Lawrence I. Conrad, Ph.D. 1981; introduction by Fred M. Donner, Ph.D. 1975.</p>

<p>This is the first translation of a classic work (<em>Ba</em><em>ḥ</em><em>th f</em><em>i</em><em> nashʾat 'ilm al-t</em><em>{\={a}}</em><em>r</em><em>i</em><em>kh 'inda al-'Arab</em>) by the eminent Arab historian~A. A.~<u>Duri</u>. Published in Beirut in 1960, <u>Duri</u>{\textquoteright}s book was the first comprehensive effort to trace the origins and early development of Arab historical writing, and to resolve some extremely complex and still debated questions about the reliability of the Arabic historical~sources.</p>
 },
  year = {1983},
  publisher = {Princeton University Press},
  address = {Princeton, NJ},
  isbn = {069105388X },
  language = {eng},
}