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Mahroof History, or more properly the writing of history, had been during the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans an elitist activity, meant for glorifying the class of power, position, and birth.
On the contrary; for instance, Britain used to play the role of the traditional villain in French history writing, exacerbated after Napolean, and moderated only in World War I.
10 The Tunnel Vision of Colonial History Writing While established societies of one kind with a deep past could be seen in the likeness of European nation-states (which was the case with the old empires of the Indian subcontinent), quite a different situation obtained with other old civilizations.
Later, these spread through space and time, including the British Empire, India, and the Islamic countries; the latest in the series is The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (edited by Donald Denoon et al.
While the civilizing roles of elites in paramount states had long ago lost their academic prominence, there were still vestiges of European powers purveying W estem scientific cultures to colonies or ex-colonies, as a persistent theme in history writing.
) History, History Writing and the Islamic Response As noted above, the Islamic historians of medieval times (and, of course, of every period) have looked upon history as a recording of ascertained and ascertainable facts and as having a purpose laid down by Allah.
Some of these subthemes might be extremely important in the efforts to Islamize history writing as purposeful activities of humankind, rather than the endorsement of a Western-centered version of a chronology of ceaseless warfare and irresponsible behavior.