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About the Book

This revised edition is a historical analysis of the philosophy developed by 35 philosophers from the earliest time to the modern era in 3 volumes.  Traditional philosophy of history has been discussed in the first volume which includes philosophical history of Augustine, Orosius, Joachim, Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Montaigne, Bacon, Hobbes, Bossuet, John Locke, Leibniz, Vico, Voltaire, Kant, Condorcet, and Herder. Second volume deals with the philosophical ideas of Hegel, Comte, Mill, Marx, Burckhardt, Buckle, Tolstoy, Dilthey, Bradley, Meyer, Plekhanov and Croce. Third volume examines the ideas of history of Spengler, Toynbee, Niebuhr, Oakeshott, Skinner, Foucault, MacIntyre, and Contextual Claim and Textual Exegeses. We are confident that the detailed philosophical account of history would certainly help all readers to analyse the subject and reach their own conclusion. We would like to sincerely thank all the people involved for their cooperation in completing of this monumental work.

About the Author

Abdul Sabahuddin, a noted mediaeval historian and translator of several Persian manuscripts into English, devoted his life more than thirty years in research and teaching in Hyderabad. He has written several books and research papers and translated Persian Manuscript into English. His other important works are: The Mughal Strategy of War and Indian Nationalism and Islamic Politics. This book is one of his important contributions to philosophy of history.