The Mind of the Historian: Causation in Philosophy of History: A Case Study in Perso-Islamic Historiography

What Are the Underlying Causes of History

In this compelling work, Dr. Ali Parsa examines the universal human questions of why things happen, and what causes historical events to take place. In our everyday lives, we try to discern relationships among many different and seemingly unrelated events, in the hope of predicting what will happen. Historians do this as well, in looking back along the arc of history. Many people read historians' works and accept them as fact. But historians' writing...