Al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya
البِدَاية والنِّهَايةDefinition
'The Beginning and the End.' Ibn Kathir's complete history of the world, from creation to the eschatological events still to come. The title captures the work's structural arc: it begins with the first divine act and ends with the final ones.
As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.
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