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<p>Renaissance humanists believed that the origins of peoples could reveal crucial facts about their modern political character. Margaret Meserve explores what happened when European historians turned to study the political history of a faith other than their own.<br><br>Meserve investigates the methods and illuminates the motives of scholars negotiating shifting boundaries—between scholarly research and political propaganda, between a commitment to critical historical inquiry and the pressure o
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- Author
- Margaret Meserve
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674040953
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Islam, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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