Genealogy and historiographic explanation of the fall of Baghdad in Persian historiographical works up to the 10th century

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

Maryam  Nazaralhooey ¹ (PHD Student , Deparment of Islamic History ,Yadegare-e-imam Khomeini(RAH) shahre Rey branch, Islamic Azad University ,Tehran,Iran.)
Mahboubeh  Sharafi ² (Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Yadegaram Khomeini Branch, Tehran-Shahrari, Iran)

Received: 2022-10-26 Accepted : 2023-01-07 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: historians, The fall of Baghdad, social approaches, critical causality,

Abstract :

The fall of the Abbasid caliphate is one of the important events of the 7th century AD, which had various reflections in written historical sources. Each of the historians have narrated the event based on their perspective on history. In order to understand the historians' approach to the fall of Baghdad, this research tries to analyze the historians' perspective by using the historical method, based on the comparative approach, in three indicators of social, causal, critical and providential approaches. For this purpose, by identifying the most important works of Persian historiography in the period from 656 to 907 AD, we will study and compare the narratives and approaches of historians regarding the fall of Baghdad. The findings show that some narrators have a political and providential approach to the event, and their historiography is a continuation of traditional Iranian Islamic historiography. Some others, with a causal approach to history, with a social and causal, critical approach, criticized the political and social performance of the Caliph and those around him, and held them responsible for the incident. Their historiography method seems to be a step towards analytical historiography.