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The Rise of Historical Writing among the Arabs
Publication Year
1983
Type
Book
Abstract
Edited and translated by Lawrence I. Conrad, Ph.D. 1981; introduction by Fred M. Donner, Ph.D. 1975.
This is the first translation of a classic work (Baḥth fī nashʾat ʻilm al-tārīkh ʻinda al-ʻArab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Dūrī. Published in Beirut in 1960, Dūrī’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.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
City
Princeton, NJ
ISBN
069105388X
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