Book Title: Arab History and Arab Historiography: Past and Present Forms of Writing.
Author: Multiple Authors.
Date of publication: 2017.
Publisher: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.
No. of pages: 1056.
The book begins with a 20-page introduction that includes the background paper for the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies’ Third Annual Conference for Historical Studies, held in Beirut on 22-24 April 2016. Next comes a preface written by Dr Wajih Kawtharani, conference coordinator and chair of the Academic Committee, entitled “Arab Historiography: Between Universal and Partial History”. It is followed by a leading article by Lebanese historian Khaled Ziadeh, offering a structured summary of observations regarding “The Use of Documents in the Writing of Arab History”.
* This review was published in the 11th issue of AlMuntaqa, a peer-reviewed academic journal for the social sciences and humanities. You can read the full paper here.