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25 07, 2017

Medieval Islamic historians

By |2018-04-09T10:31:10-07:00July 25th, 2017|History, Islam, Literature|Comments Off on Medieval Islamic historians

A page from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, from Herat, Afghanistan, about 1444 AD. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Islamic historians began by translating Greek historians like Herodotus and Thucydides into Arabic. But soon historians wrote in [...]

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