Toward atypology of moral histories : narrating al-Andalus

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This paper assnan the gams that cm comr to the study of the pitsI through the dcivlopment

II argues that the moral intentions and ethical function* of history writing tend to br overlooked in historiography and the philosophy of history.

Using examples from the hfetorMgnipftv (fal-Andalus the article explores both the moral imperalipe in descriptions of the past and the manner m nUirdi particular forms of “nwral'lmtorirs" can hr xen in different historical cultures ixvr time.

FoUmcxng the structuralist impulse found in the ceort of llaydm White and Tzvelan Todorov.

Ihe article argues that the dewlopmenl of typologies of history's moral functions and intentions affords the beginnings of itnw proiitctitv cotmnatton* Muwi history.

,-lines, and critical theory.