LUMS - Political Philosophy: Herodotus and Thucydides. Herodotus and Thucydides are considered the founders of the study of history. They wrote about the Greek Persian wars and Peloponnesian wars. It was in relation to these wars that they developed their ideas of liberty and criticisms of democracy. | Laal

Al Masudi, One of the greatest traveler, geographer in the history. He started traving the world from his early age till very late of his life. He visited, African, China, Europe, Middleast, India and Mid Asia. He contributed a lot in geographic history of this world. He explained in his writing about people’s life, politics, nature of rulers, religion and relation of nations and tribes. He used to be called Herodotus(Father of History) of the Arabs. He have lots of work mainly in theology, hist