Name: Revisionist History of Islam
Brand: Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)
SKU: 9789698784850
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Revisionist History of Islam

A Critical Study of Post 1977 Interpretations

By (author): Muhammad Reza Kazimi

Published by Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)

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£5.00

Format: Paperback
Pages: 63
ISBN: 9789698784850
Publication Date: 01-Jan-2017

Subjects:
History
Islam

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This introductory study offers an analysis of the Revisionist History of Islam from the works of John Wansbrough (1977) to Stephen J Shoemaker (2012), This genre questions even the bare facts, for example Islam having originated in Arabia, or that Arabic was the language of the Qureish. Although the findings of Revisionist historians have been subject to mutual criticism, they are being subjected here for the first time to an independent and comprehensive scrutiny, which takes into account the seventh century Greco-Latin sources on Islam, as well as the conclusions derived from them by Revisionist historians.

Dr Muhammad Reza Kazimi (b.Bombay, 1945) teaches and supervises research at the University of Karachi in the fields of Islamic, Pakistan and European Studies. His publications include Liaquat Ali Khan: His Life & Work (2003/2015), A Concise History of Pakistan (2009) and the Blood of Husayn (2011), and monographs (2015) titles The Raja of Mahmudabad: A Political Study, The 1965 Indo-Pakistan War A Historical Appraisal, and Z.A Bhutto & The Historiography of 1971. He has written papers on Nahj al-Balagha: Text & Context, Masudi & Cultural Geography and a review article on The Oxford History of Islam. Dr Kazimi has also published literary criticism in Urdu.