The place of historian doctors in Islamic historiography

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

hassan abdipour ¹ , Asghar Montazerolghaem ² , Torab Attari ³

1 - Responsible for the Secretariat of the Assembly of Thinkers in Iran and the Arab World
2 - The Professor Department of History & Iranology University of Isfahan, Iran
3 - Student doctoral history Islam / university of Isfahan

Received: 2017-12-25 Accepted : 2018-01-26 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: historian doctors, doctor, historian, Islamic historiography,

Abstract :

"Islamic historiography" or "historiography of Muslims" has a special place among its other components as one of the important dimensions of Islamic culture and civilization. It is said that in completing and compiling Islamic historiography, individuals, classes and various groups, including doctors, scholars, historians, etc., have contributed. Also, it seems that despite extensive studies conducted on Islamic doctors, less study has been conducted on people who have been practicing both doctoring and writing at the same time. Therefore, these are the questions that arise in this regard; What role has these people (doctors of historians or doctor historians) played in the development and completion of Islamic historiography? What place have these doctors had in Islamic historiography? Has historians had access to resources and documents more than other historians? What methods have the adopted in their historiography? And so on. The first hypothesis that can be articulated is that there have been famous historians among doctors of the Islamic era who have played a significant role in Islamic historiography, given their places and positions; also, there have been historians who, besides compiling historical books, have participated in medicine and owned important medical books. In the current article, it has been tried to answer the above questions and other similar questions appropriately, while dealing with the status of historian doctors in Islamic historiography, based on historical sources and documents.