A Guide to Studying History
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 24 June 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This audio is brought to you by MuslimCentral.com |
| 0:06.8 | Three basic questions that I want everybody to think about when they come to any aspect of history when you study |
| 0:14.0 | History you have to think of a number of things first and foremost |
| 0:18.1 | How do you know what you know? |
| 0:19.8 | How do you know what actually happened? |
| 0:22.0 | And this is the branch of historical epistemology, right? |
| 0:25.2 | How do you know the facts? How do you know exactly what happened in the year 50? |
| 0:29.7 | Higiro, right? |
| 0:30.7 | How are you going to or if you're studying the Civil War of America or if you're studying the Spanish Inquisition? |
| 0:35.8 | Whatever you might be you need to know the sources and the pros and cons of every source and |
| 0:41.6 | Which source is way tear than other sources and how you're going to sift through the biases of the authors of these sources |
| 0:48.8 | So you have a historical epistemology, right? |
| 0:52.1 | That is a study of the sources of that particular era that particular incident and |
| 0:58.3 | Weighing which of these sources is more authoritative? |
| 1:01.2 | Why is it more authoritative? What is to be done in the case of a clash? |
| 1:05.0 | So a lot of times all of those sources will agree for example, you know |
| 1:10.2 | Horsan Radeel Lahuwan was master cut at Carbada |
| 1:12.8 | Okay, we know it happened in the year 61 Higira the Tentham Muharram. That is an undeniable fact |
| 1:18.7 | Okay, now how about if they don't agree? |
| 1:21.4 | How about if the sources differ amongst themselves? |
| 1:24.2 | So for example, one of the things we're going to discuss today was the head of |
| 1:29.5 | Horsan Radeel Lahuwan transported to |
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