It will be assumed that the word tarikh, used in Arabic and other Islamic languages for “history”, is understood to signify in its wider connotation, both in the Western Christian and Eastern Moslem traditions, “A systematic written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes.” (Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, G & C. Merriam Co., 1953).
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