Translation

History: Science or Art?

Volume: 23 Number: 2 December 30, 2023
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History: Science or Art?

Abstract

Is history a science or an art? There are several ways of looking at this well known and frequently debated question. One way would be to look at the categorization of disciplines as made by the Academia Europaea. This organization has given a great deal of thought to the matter, resulting for the moment in the rather practical solution of essentially distinguishingn four broad categories: Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Life Sciences. It is noticeable that, apart from the Humanities, all other scholars use the term 'science' to describe their work. But not all of them will be considered as scientists proper because, in the English language, the word science (or sciences) in its simple form, without any adjective, refers exclusively to the natural sciences.

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Thanks

I would like to express my gratitude to Hüseyin Gökalp for his support

References

  1. Wesseling, Henk. “History: Science or Art?” European Review 6/3 (Ağustos 1998), 265-267. https://doi.org/10.1017/S106279870000329X

Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Islamic Studies (Other)

Journal Section

Translation

Publication Date

December 30, 2023

Submission Date

July 16, 2023

Acceptance Date

October 29, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 23 Number: 2

ISNAD
Büyükavcıoğlu, Hatice, trans. “Tarih: Bilim Mi Sanat Mı?”. Marife Dini Araştırmalar Dergisi 23/2 (December 1, 2023): 651-656. https://doi.org/10.33420/marife.1327966.