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ajiss-2604	Blankinship, Khalid	Islam and World History: Towards a New Periodization	1991.0	30	.pdf	application/pdf	14284	530	51	The early efforts aimed at reforming the ancient-medieval-modem scheme were followed in the period after the Second World War by the foundation of various area studies programs in American universities as well as by the addition of professors and courses specializing in non-Western history. This same Eurocentricview is equally pervasive in such allied fields as art history, where the same paradigm is in use.5 If any modification at all is made in the scheme, it is usually only to lump medieval together with ancient history, thereby creating a binary before-and-after scheme which highlights the distinctive superiority of modem Western civilization against all else.b This is even true of self-critical Marxist- based histories, for these too inflate Western hubris by showing how much greater - and therefore more relevant - are the problems of modern Western societies.	cache/ajiss-2604.pdf	txt/ajiss-2604.txt