The providential approach in the historiography of the Ilkhanid era (case study, the fall of Baghdad)

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

Maryam Nazaralhooey ¹ , mahboobeh sharafi ^{2 *}

1 - PHD Student , Deparment of Islamic History ,Yadegare-e-imam Khomeini(RAH) shahre Rey branch, Islamic Azad University ,Tehran,Iran.
2 - Department of history.Yadegar imam. branch ,islamic azad university,shahre Rey Iran

Received: 2022-11-24 Accepted : 2023-01-15 Published : 2025-03-05

Keywords: historiography, historians of the Ilkhanid era, fall of Baghdad, providential approach, critical causal approach.,

Abstract :

The fall of the Abbasid caliphate is one of the important events of the 7th century BC, which has had various reflections in written historical works, and each historian has narrated it from a specific perspective. This research tries to understand the providential approach of historians to the fall of Baghdad by using a comparative method to analyze and recognize selected narratives in Persian historiographical works of the Ilkhanid era. The main issue is which narrators in the narrative of the fall of Baghdad from The perspective of providentialism looked at the event and what effect did this have on their historiography? The findings of the research based on the historical method with a descriptive-analytical approach show that the historians of the patriarchal era were not free from the idea of divine providence, however, some historians, considering the situation and type of view of what history is, had a level of causal approach, criticizing the event and They have achieved some of the historical facts. This has made their historiography fluctuate in the narrative of the fall of Baghdad in the continuation of traditional historiography until the change towards analytical historiography.