(when used broadly) any Arab | the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings |
(historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire | all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge |
(historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades | a record or narrative description of past events |
| the aggregate of past events |
| the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future |