The formation of history as a discipline during early Islamic history
This paper highlights the importance of history as a discipline and a branch of knowledge in early Islamic intellectual life. It first underlines that Islam, as a creed and culture, is a history-conscious religion that was born among the Arabs, who inherited well-established methodologies of oral tr...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/77814/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/77814/1/Emergence%20of%20History%20as%20Discipline_fulldocuments.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper highlights the importance of history as a discipline and a branch of knowledge in early Islamic intellectual life. It first underlines that Islam, as a creed and culture, is a history-conscious religion that was born among the Arabs, who inherited well-established methodologies of oral tradition and writing of genealogies from their history-loving ancestors, thus facilitating the formation of history as a branch of revealed knowledge (naqli) along with ‘ilm al-hadith and ‘ilm al-tafasir as early as the second century after the hijrah. |
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