Tarikh is an Arabic word meaning date, chronology or era, extended by usage to mean annals, history or historiography; it is also used in Persian, Urdu, Bengali and the Turkic languages and appears in the titles of many historical works. Before the nineteenth century the word referred strictly to the writing of or knowledge about history, though in modern Arabic, like the English word history, it can refer either to past events themselves or to their written representation.
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Notable ExampleTarikh-i Jahangusha-yi Khaqan Sahibqiran (History of the World Conqueror and Khagan, Master of the Conjunction), 1680s 1 Sources
1. Tarikh (Wikipedia)
Titles of historical works
Tarikh-i Jahangusha-yi Khaqan Sahibqiran ('History of the World Conqueror and Khagan, Master of the Conjunction;' 1680s).
In Group: Chronicles, Annals and Histories, Lead section
Tarikh (Arabic: تاريخ, romanized: tārīkh) is an Arabic word meaning "date, chronology, era", whence by extension "annals, history, historiography".
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