Document Type : Research

Author

• Ali Bayat

Associate Professor Of History And Civilization of Islamic Nations, Tehran University

Abstract

During last two centuries, numerous researches about Islamic history, culture and civilization in form of books and articles are published by Muslim and non-Muslim researchers. Although each of them have thrown light on angles of bygone Islamic culture and civilization, all publication do not have the same scientific validity and should be criticized precisely. In this article, the book “Arab History in Islamic Era” by Javad Ali, famous Iraqi thinker and historian, which is translated to Persian by Mansur Dadash Nejad, is reviewed formally and contently. In summary, some deficits and shortcoming such as lack of compliance of title with content, confine method of historiography in mere academic context and school of historical positivism, bringing some unsourced quotes and contents or citation without verification and some ambiguities in text. In contrast, contents of book are based on diverse and firm historical materials and documents and comparison between them, philology and linguistic researches is utilized, and there are quotations and criticisms of orientalists. The author motivated and aimed to discovering truth, has studied and analyzed history of Islam that is yielded precise and wise innovations and punctiliousness of chain of events.  Author’s ethical characteristics like avoiding prejudice, courtesy and scientific humility, and accepting criticism are the other privileges of the book.

Keywords

• Arab History in Islamic Era
• Javad Ali
• Arab History in Islamic Era- Sire Nabavi

Main Subjects

• History