The writing of Iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. Portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the Iranian throught world. To have a truly Iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...

“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and in particular on its potential connections with ethics. This essay draws on the work of the virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including alle...

This book studies our knowledge of history, its nature, historical development, epistemic limits, and scope. In ordinary language “history” is ambiguous. It may mean past events or the study of past events (Dray, 1993, p. 1). In its original Greek historie is etymologically related to the verb “to see” and consequently to inquiry and knowledge. In other languages, “history” means a story (Le Go...

it is said that the local historiography of iran – as a part of local historiography in islamic civilization – began after the widespread political, social, scientific, and cultural changes in various regions of iran and with khurāsān as its pioneer. but all the writers who have commented in this respect have disregarded the monographs that the traditionists of iraq school of historiography hav...

DENYS HAY, Annalists and historians. Western historiography from the eighth to the eighteenth century, London, Methuen, 1977, 8vo, pp. viii, 215, £2.95 (paperback). For very nearly forty years the distinguished Professor of Medieval History in the University of Edinburgh has planned to write a history of European historiography. He now does so with a brilliant survey, ranging from the historian...

versified historiography as a style of historiographycame into being in 6th/12th century iran through imitating ferdowsi’sshāhnāma and reached its height in mongol era. consequently, in less than a century, more than ten versified histories were composed including one of the most famous one, ẓafar-nāma ofḥamd-allāhmostawfi. but it was zojājitabrizi who composed the first versified history, homā...

’abd al-raḥmān jabartī got involved in writing egypt’s incidents at a time when this country was about to enter developments due to which the traditional features of egypt would undergo some transformations. the transformative trends were originated from the fact that since nineteenth century new european thoughts in various cases, including historiography, which jabartī had been witnessing sin...

This article aims to provide an overview of the historiography of psychology textbooks. In the overview, I identify and describe in detail two strands of writing histories of introductory textbooks of psychology and juxtapose them to provide an integrated historiography of textbooks in psychology. One strand is developed by teachers of psychology-first as a general approach for investigating te...

Diagnostic criteria ofsyphilis, yaws and treponarid (treponematoses) and of some other diseases in dry bones (for use in osteo-archaeology), Berlin, Methods of diagnosing or denying syphilis in ancient bones is of vital significance for the interpretation of the early history of syphilis. Dr. Hackett has taken the first essential step, which is the establishment of diagnostic criteria of syphil...