📘 ❞ THE QUR ANIC CONCEPT OF HISTORY ❝ كتاب ــ أبراهيم بابللي اصدار 1985

عن كتاب THE QUR ANIC CONCEPT OF HISTORY:
Any narration of the past is known as 'history'. It is used

as a generic term when one talks of 'the history of civiliza-
tions', 'the political history of a country', 'the economic

history of any region', 'the history of religions' or 'the

history of mankind'. But when one frames the history sylla-
bus for school children or teaches 'history' as a subject in

schools and colleges, one generally deals with the political
history of races, nations, peoples and mankind. Whether we
are teaching the history of the world or the history of a
nation or the history of a region, we describe the rise and
fall of nations, or the growth and expansion of political
progress or downfall of houses and families. Even when we
speak of civi li.sations and cultures, we consider them in the
context of peace and war among groups of people or nations
or races. In other words, racial, cultural, social, economic
and moral history of mankind is always presented within the

context of the growth, expansion and fall of political autho-
rity. When the past of mankind is presented in the Qur'an,

the same rise and fall of political authority is discussed.
The narration of the past of mankind through history in the
restricted sense of the word is therefore, both in the Qur'an
and in modern connotation, the narration of the rise and fall
of political authority.