Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

PREFACE
relating to caliphs and monarchs, the Muslim
historians preserved also the history of the way
in which common people thought and lived. In
this material one can find detailed record of
justice done by the rulers, their achievements
and reforms as well as the full description of those
personalities who fearlessly and publicly criticised
the rulers for doing wrong or straying from
the right path and who always devoted their
efforts to keep Islamic society from taking wrong
directions.
This kind of historical record furnishes
correct events of particular periods. As I
have said above, in spite of distortions made
by Orientalists and their efforts to invent false
stories, the real facts could not remain hidden.
In this book only the above facts have been
put forward inviting scholars to make further
researches on them. Some reputed Western historians
and Orientalists have tried to give the
impression that history is a mere collection of
myths and conjectures in
which much hearsay
and many cooked-up facts have been recorded.
But this is not true. Therefore 1 have tried to
show what the Islamic conception of history is.
and what important part has been played in i
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