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In industrial societies where civil law and state institutions have become well-established secular vehicles for governing the populace, it is widely assumed that the state no longer has an interest in fortifying the religious sector as a complementary source of social control. …

This dissertation is a comparative textual analysis of the ways non-Islamic cultures are represented in early Islamic universal histories (9th -10th centuries). It analyzes the significance that early Muslim universal historians attached to non Islamic cultures in the context of…