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Zubdat al-saha’if fi siyahat al-ma’arif (Essential pages in the evolution of learning) is the second volume of a three-volume universal history by the Lebanese writer and intellectual Nawfal al-Tarabulsi (1812−87). In this volume, al-Tarabulsi covers, in a relentlessly narrative style, dynastic history from the earliest times to the 19th century. In 550 closely written pages, he traces the “three phases of history as recognized by afranj (Western) historians,” namely, the “first centuries” from the Creation to the fall of Rome in the fourth century, a period of ...