History Knowledge in the West-Philosophical, Scientific and Literary Approaches of History by Qais Madi Ferro

Abstract

What is history? A question undoubtedly arduous to answer, but the task of solving and explicating it is undertaken by researcher Qais Madi Ferro in this book. Over four chapters, he reviews the methods, schools, and tools that have dealt with this field of knowledge, which covers many contexts and times, given the fact that history in an idea that combines current reality and events in the past, and a method that combines facts and reorders then in imagined images to construct a narrative that describes what happened at a time absent from the human present.