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This work of mine may therefore be regarded as a fresh initiation,not a completion of such a task. These concentrate on many subjects including amir khusraw, shah waliyullah, and alrazi. Scholarly articles and books philosophy library guides at. Instead of reading history in the mirrors of presupposed philosophies which may give distorted images, it is the study of history itself through which the dynamics of history can be clearly seen and its laws discovered.