An attempt to understand history: knowledge, ideology, and civilization, by Ali Al-Jarbawi

According to Al-Jarbawi, the book monitors the process of the formation of civilization, the relationships of successive civilizations with each other across ages, and components of independent cultures and those remaining from previous civilizations within each era. Through this, it is not only possible to understand how human history was shaped in the past but also to gain insight into its nature and its course in the future. The book consists of five chapters and a conclusion; the first discusses the deconstruction of history, based on a fundamental idea that human history began with the start of documenting the existence of humans on Earth, and has continued from then until now without interruption. Based on this, the chapter critically analyzes Western claims arising from an elitist perspective associated with the thought of "European centrality" and "Western centrism," which over the past decades has promoted the idea that the history of human development began with Europe reviving itself. Number of pages: 376