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501.

Al-Aqidah Al-Waasitiyyah is written by

A. ibn tymiyyah
B. muhammad abduhu
C. rasheed ridha
D. imam khumaini
Answer» B. muhammad abduhu
502.

Who was the editor of Al Urwa Al Wutqa

A. hasanul banna
B. muhammad abduhu
C. rasheed ridha
D. jamaluddin al afghani
Answer» E.
503.

Hasanul Banna was born in the Year:

A. 1923
B. 1921
C. 1906
D. 1902
Answer» D. 1902
504.

The propounder of Pan Islamic Movement

A. saad zaghlool
B. muhammedali
C. jamaluddin al afghani
D. muhammad abduhu
Answer» D. muhammad abduhu
505.

Ibn Taymiyyah was belonged to ______ school of Jurisprudence

A. hambali
B. maliki
C. shafi
D. hanafi
Answer» B. maliki
506.

Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab was born in

A. 1806
B. 1703
C. 17011
D. 1888
Answer» C. 17011
507.

Ibn Taymiyyah was born in the city of

A. harran
B. tehran
C. bagdad
D. makkah
Answer» B. tehran
508.

’The Feudal Society’ was written by ..................

A. Émile durkheim
B. r.g.collingwood
C. march bloch
D. lucien febvre
Answer» D. lucien febvre
509.

Who is the author of ‘The Decline of the West ?

A. edward gibbon
B. arnold joseph toynbee
C. thomas carlyle
D. spengler
Answer» E.
510.

‘The Historian's Craft’, is the work of .............

A. Émile durkheim
B. paul vidal de la blache
C. march bloch
D. lucien febvre
Answer» D. lucien febvre
511.

‘The Use of History’ was written by ...........

A. a.l.rouse
B. e.p.thompson
C. h.e. barnes
D. r.g.collingwood
Answer» B. e.p.thompson
512.

Author of ‘Re- thinking History’ is .........

A. jenkins keith
B. a.l. rouse
C. ranajith guha
D. e.j:,gilbert
Answer» B. a.l. rouse
513.

Author of The Idea of History is.................

A. e.p.thompson
B. r.g.collingwood
C. h.e.barnes
D. arthur marwick
Answer» C. h.e.barnes
514.

Nature of History was written by ................

A. arthur marwick
B. e.sreedharan
C. r.g.collingwood
D. a.l. rouse
Answer» B. e.sreedharan
515.

History of Historical Writing was written by ..........

A. h.e. barnes
B. r.g.collingwood
C. e.h. carr
D. sheik ali
Answer» B. r.g.collingwood
516.

Author of ‘what is History?

A. burke peter
B. e.h.carr
C. barnes robert m
D. h. raymond pickard
Answer» C. barnes robert m
517.

Author of Meta history (1973)is.................

A. louis mink
B. hayden white
C. frank ankersmit
D. ankersmit
Answer» C. frank ankersmit
518.

The philosopher of science ...............stimulated analytic philosophers'interest in historical knowledge in his essay, “The Function of General Laws in History” (1942).

A. carl hempel
B. william dray
C. michael scriven
D. alan donagan
Answer» B. william dray
519.

................. New Science (1725) offered an interpretation of history thatturned on the idea of a universal human nature and a universal history .

A. giambattista vico's
B. alessandro portelli
C. ranke’s
D. spengler’s
Answer» B. alessandro portelli
520.

Johann Gottfried Herder argues for the historical contextuality of humannature in his work,Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity (1791).

A. johann gottfried
B. toynbee
C. wittfogel
D. wilhelm dilthey
Answer» B. toynbee
521.

The original idea of writing micro history came from ................ in the1970s.

A. russia
B. germany
C. italy
D. china
Answer» D. china
522.

In 1948, .................., a Columbia University historian, established theColumbia Oral History Research Office, with a mission of recording, transcribing, and preserving oral history interviews.

A. alan nevins
B. david p. boder
C. m. vaněk
D. m. otáhal
Answer» B. david p. boder
523.

The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by AllanNevins and his associates at ..............University.

A. columbia
B. oxford
C. newyork
D. cambridge
Answer» B. oxford
524.

In ‘On Realism in Art’ Roman ............... argues that literature does notexist as a separate entity.

A. jacobson
B. owen flanagan
C. victor shklovsky
D. gérard genette
Answer» B. owen flanagan
525.

HPR Finberg was the first Professor of ...........Local History.

A. english
B. french
C. spanish
D. dutch
Answer» B. french
526.

The Archaeology of Knowledge is a book by the Frenchphilosopher ................

A. michel foucault
B. jean hyppolite
C. louis althusser
D. owen flanagan
Answer» B. jean hyppolite
527.

................. is a Joint-editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literaryjournal published from Calcutta.

A. michel foucault
B. jhumpa lahiri
C. philippe ariès
D. partha chatterjee
Answer» E.
528.

.................. received Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009 for hiscontributions to academia.

A. partha chatterjee
B. sumit sarkar
C. richard j. evans
D. harry hendrick
Answer» B. sumit sarkar
529.

............... entitled one of his essays "Decline of the Subaltern inSubaltern Studies", criticizing the turn to Foucauldian studies of power- knowledge that left behind many of the empiricist and Marxist efforts of the first two volumes of Subaltern Studies.

A. sumit sarkar
B. richard j. evans
C. harry hendrick
D. partha chatterjee
Answer» B. richard j. evans
530.

....................is an Indian historian and is the author of ‘SwadeshiMovement’.

A. michel foucault
B. partha chatterjee
C. philippe ariès
D. sumit sarkar
Answer» E.
531.

................. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India iswidely considered to be a classic.

A. ranajit guha’s
B. sumit sarkar
C. partha chatterjee
D. roger chartier
Answer» B. sumit sarkar
532.

.................. is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential inthe Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies.

A. ranajit guha
B. leszek kołakowski
C. tony judt
D. partha chatterjee
Answer» B. leszek kołakowski
533.

.................. book is ‘The Poverty of Historicism’.

A. karl popper's
B. pierre-joseph proudhons
C. gustav schmoller’s
D. werner sombart’s
Answer» B. pierre-joseph proudhons
534.

In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attackedthe structuralist Marxism.

A. e. p. thompson
B. harold wilson
C. karl marx
D. otto hintze
Answer» B. harold wilson
535.

............. most influential work was and remains ‘The Making of theEnglish Working Class’, published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.

A. stuart hall’s
B. perry anderson’s
C. raymond williams’
D. e.p.thompson's
Answer» E.
536.

In a notable pre-prison article entitled "The Revolution against DasKapital", .................claimed that the October Revolution in Russia had invalidated the idea that socialist revolution had to await the full development of capitalist forces of production.

A. joseph stalin
B. machiavelli
C. benito mussolini
D. antonio gramsci
Answer» E.
537.

..............was a founding member and onetime leader of the CommunistParty of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini'sFascist regime.

A. leon trotsky
B. edward saïd
C. antonio gramsci
D. vladimir ilyich lenin
Answer» D. vladimir ilyich lenin
538.

In Marxist theory, the civil sense of the term Subaltern was first used bythe Italian Communist intellectual ............ , possibly as a synonym for the proletariat.

A. antonio gramsci
B. homi k. bhabha
C. max weber
D. thorstein veblen
Answer» B. homi k. bhabha
539.

The history of sexuality was treated in depth by the Frenchphilosopher ................ in his final work, the multi-volume Histoire de la sexualité.

A. michel foucault
B. jeremy bentham
C. e.p. thompson
D. g. m. trevelyan. 68.gender history gained prominence after it was conceptualized
Answer» B. jeremy bentham
540.

........... was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School.

A. fernand braudel
B. jules michelet
C. stephan thernstrom
D. jeremy bentham
Answer» B. jules michelet
541.

.............. is often cited as the founder of structural anthropology.

A. lévi-strauss
B. ferdinand de saussure
C. lucien febvre
D. march bloch
Answer» B. ferdinand de saussure
542.

Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" startingin 1950 with.....................

A. jaime vincens vives
B. jacques revel
C. philippe ariès
D. roger chartier
Answer» B. jacques revel
543.

............ has had lasting influence in the field of historiography throughhis unfinished manuscript ‘The Historian's Craft’, which he was working on at his death.

A. march bloch
B. paul vidal de la blache
C. Émile durkheim
D. lucien febvre
Answer» B. paul vidal de la blache
544.

....................is best known for his pioneering studies French RuralHistory and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.

A. marc leopold benjamin bloch
B. lévi-strauss
C. ferdinand de saussure
D. lucien febvre
Answer» B. lévi-strauss
545.

................published a large work, available in a two-volume Englishtranslation as Feudal Society.

A. ferdinand de saussure
B. lévi-strauss
C. marc leopold benjamin bloch
D. lucien febvre
Answer» D. lucien febvre
546.

Among ...............many significant publications, The ElementaryStructures of Kinship (1949) and The Savage Mind (1962) exemplify his contributions to anthropology.

A. claude lévi-strauss’
B. ferdinand de saussure
C. lucien febvre
D. march bloch
Answer» B. ferdinand de saussure
547.

.................. published Structural Anthropology, a collection of his essayswhich provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism.

A. claude lévi-strauss
B. ferdinand de saussure’s
C. charles bally
D. albert sechehaye
Answer» B. ferdinand de saussure’s
548.

............... most influential work, the Course of General Linguistics waspublished posthumously in 1916.

A. ferdinand de saussure’s
B. charles bally
C. albert sechehaye
D. claude lévi-strauss
Answer» B. charles bally
549.

.................... is widely considered the "father" of twentieth-centurylinguistics.

A. ferdinand de saussure
B. karl marx
C. claude lévi-strauss
D. thomas kuhn
Answer» B. karl marx
550.

Blending Marx and structuralism French theorist LouisAlthusser introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to "structural Marxism."

A. louis althusser
B. ferdinand de saussure
C. claude lévi-strauss
D. thomas kuhn
Answer» B. ferdinand de saussure