In this book, the author seeks to improve awareness among both elites and the public on two important issues:

• First: Understanding the nature of the historian's work—the data, challenges, and pitfalls they encounter—in order to adopt an objective stance that helps reduce the deceptiveness of history.
• Second: To benefit from historical data to understand humanity at the level of individual and social behavior; understanding people in power, when they are rich or poor, Muslim or non-Muslim. Along with understanding humanity, the goal is to comprehend the divine laws that govern the human journey and existence on this earth.

Understanding all of this will greatly help us to know ourselves and our reality, and will guide us to the right directions in envisioning our future. The author notes that the task is heavy, and this work is but one candle among a thousand needed to illuminate a large hall.

• Author: Abdulkareem Bakkar
• Publisher: Dar Al-Qalam, Damascus
• Edition: 1
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Pages: 384
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789933292584