num_pages: 268
description: 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.
language: English
title: Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
titlecomplete: Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
genres: History
ratings_count: 39
series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
publisher: Cambridge University Press