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Provide a comparative analysis of the development of Arabic and Persian historiography.
- UPSC 2010
- Culture during Mughal Empire
Arabic and Persian represent two distinct historiographical traditions within the wider Islamic world, differing in origin, method, and purpose, before the Indo-Islamic experience made Persian, rather than Arabic, the working language of dynastic history-writing in India.
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- Origins and Method in Arabic Historiography
- Persian Historiography: The Courtly, Literary Chronicle
- Comparative Assessment: Method, Patronage, and Purpose
- Why Persian, Not Arabic, Became India's Language of Historical Record
- Conclusion
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