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TAWĀRĪKH AL-BULDĀN: LOCAL HISTORY IN THE ARABIC TRADITION A historiographical study based on a reading of a history of Gharnāṭa entitled Al-Iḥāṭa fī Akhbār Gharnāṭa by al-wazīr Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1374)

Hadjirin, Arshad MUniversity of Cambridge2024

… tawārīkh al- buldān, or local history in the Arabic tradition. It is constituted of ten chapters that build on each other to convey a central thesis, which is argued, systematically, proceeding from the general to the specific. In this effort, a new approach is taken towards explaining how a …

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