Zainudden Makhdoom I The Historian
The Author of Tuhafat Ul Mujahideen an authoritative history of the world in Arabic, and the grandson of Shaikh Zainudden Makhdoom I. Both were Malayali scholars and taught at the famous Ponnani Madrasa, on the southwest coast of India.
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“The historian must have ... some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.”
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