Islamic History

History as a Discipline

Arabization

History as a Discipline

Linguistic, Cultural, and Political Spread of Arab Identity Overview Arabization (Arabic: taʿrīb, تعريب) refers to the historical process through which non-Arab peoples, languages, and cultures became Arabic-speaking and assimilated into Arab cultural identity. This phenomenon occurred across the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of the Horn of Africa, particularly after the rise of Islam […]

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Bias in History

History as a Discipline

Definition In very simple words, bias is a partiality in favour of or against anything, any person, any group, any phenomenon, or any hypothesis when compared with another. Root Cause of Bias in History Bias can be present at any stage of historical scientific research, whether it is data creation, data collection, data storage, data

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Sources of History

History as a Discipline

While reading pages after pages of a history book, a question comes to mind.  How does a historian know that those events actually happened?  A historian uses certain materials to knit the story called ‘history’. They are ‘historical sources’ or simply ‘sources’.   The author might know of a source which was contemporary to the event

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Discovering History

History as a Discipline

History is the art and science of studying the past.  Historians reveal the past by assembling various evidence available to them about bygone events.  These pieces of evidence are called sources.  Archaeologists help historians in the formidable task of discovering sources.  Their job is to dig out historical material and analyse it objectively.  Generating history

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