Intro
The study of people and events from the past.
What is History?
The belief that society will continually improve through human initiative.
What is social progress?
He believed that history is a fiction.
Michel Foucault.
The belief that we are progressing through history toward our own divinity.
What is evolutionary godhood?
The belief that history follows a chronological pattern of cause and effect.
What is the linear conception of history?
Known as the father of history.
Who is Herodotus?
The natural process moving humanity towards perfection and earth towards paradise.
What is evolution?
This view says that human existence is without meaning, purpose or value.
What is nihilism?
The belief that the world should be united under a global Islamic state.
What is Pan-Islam?
The belief summarized as creation, fall, redemption and new creation.
What is the redemption narrative?
Something indisputably known to exist in reality.
What is a fact?
The class struggle between the thesis and the antithesis which creates a synthesis.
What is dialectical materialism?
The process used to expose and oppose bias in objective truth claims.
What is deconstruction?
Radicals who teach that all humanity will one day bow to Allah either freely or by force.
Who are Islamists?
The belief that humans have the capacity to voluntarily choose a course of action.
What is free will?
The study of the methodology used to reconstruct historical events.
What is historiography?
The process by which society is guided by nature through progressive socioeconomic phases.
What is historical materialism?
The act of reinterpreting the past to serve an ideological purpose.
What is historical revisionism?
The belief that humanity is evolving both biologically and spiritually.
What is cosmic evolution?
The belief that history follows a repeating pattern of recurring ages.
What is the cyclical conception of history?
The belief that all events, including human actions, are the inevitable and necessary results of previous actions.
What is determinism?
He is a famous Marxist historian who reinterpreted America's history through class warfare.
Who is Howard Zinn?
Overarching stories of the world rejected by Postmodernism.
What is a metanarrative?
The inner spiritual battle of a Muslim to fulfill their religious duties.
What is Jihad?
Biblical trust based on evidence and reason.
What is faith?