Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

first authoritative document
kind, relied upon those traditions which they
received through Jew scholars, but they made
a critical study of those traditions and consulted
ali the sources where they could get
some new
knowledge. This is the reason why they recorded
with complete confidence all the knowledge gained
by them through careful
research and they
wrote their histories as if they were eye-witnesses
of all the incidents and events recorded by them.
This is not the occasion to go into details.
As an example, we quote al-Mas'udi below who
says :
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