Islamic historiography/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2003, repr. 2007
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| Series: | Themes in Islamic history
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Table of Contents:
- Origins
- The emergence of genre
- Consequences and models
- Three categories: biography, prosopography, chronography
- Historiography and traditionalism
- Historiography and society
- God and models of history
- Historians and the truth
- Vocations and professions
- Writing history.