(3) A Study of the Book “Al-Bidāyah wa’l-Nihāyah”

Prologue:

First – Content

1. The Beginning and the narratives of the Prophets.
2. The Prophetic Sīrah.
3. Islamic History:
   a. The Rightly Guided Caliphate and the Umayyad Dynasty.
   b. The Abbasid Caliphate.
   c. The Baḥrī Mamluk Sultanate.
4. The End
   (a treatment of the Hereafter, its conditions, the portents of the Hour, and their manifestations)

Second – The book’s methodology.
Third – Style.
Fourth – Sources and references.
Fifth – Editions of Al-Bidāyah wa’l-Nihāyah.