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The Analytical History of Islam is the most famous book by Dr. Seyyed Jafar Shahidi, which has consistently been used as a textbook for teaching Islamic history in recent years. In this article, this book is reviewed from two perspectives: 1- From the perspective of elements outside the text (author, publisher, readers, and the discourse to which the work belongs); 2- From the perspective of elements within the text (title, subject literature, book literature, content, method, and quantity of the work).
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3 might place a question mark against the author's record, but it cannot be denied that Dr. Shahidi's mastery of jurisprudence, principles, Persian and Arabic literature, and years of investigation into sources and references that directly or indirectly reflect the events and occurrences of Islamic history, have greatly assisted him in historical studies.
The vision and thought within which the author has created his work Generally speaking, in the years of the 1350s (the period when the initial writing of the book Analytical History of Islam was prepared), one could distinguish between visions and thoughts such as the nationalist current, the Marxist current, the academic current, and the religious current in our country's historiography.
The first and last two words apparently do not have a specific value or emotional weight and seem to possess neither novelty nor special attractiveness for a book title, but the word "Analytical" has a different situation; this word refers to the author's method of work and shows the distinction of this work from those types of works that have merely confined themselves to narrating the traditions of Islamic history.
5 The honorable author has quoted both of these statistics from the book Al-Kamil by Ibn al-Athir, and we know that Ibn al-Athir, in narrating the events of these years, relies on the History of al-Tabari, which itself belongs to that category of works whose narrations, in the opinion of Dr. Shahidi, cannot be accepted without criticism and consideration of other clues and evidence.
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