Insight and Method Historiography of Hamzeh Esfahani In the Sanni al-Muluk and al-arz al-Anbia

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

Zekrollah Mohammadi ¹ (Associate Professor, Department of History, alzahra University, Qazvin, Iran)
Pourya Esmaeili ² (PhD Student, The history of Islamic Iran, Department of History,Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran)

Received: 2017-04-11 Accepted : 2018-07-14 Published : 2018-08-23

Keywords: Islamic historiography, Keywords: Universal insight, Shubia, Dynasty method, Comparative history,

Abstract :

This article examines the historiography style of Hamzeh Esfahani, the historian of thefourth century AH. His book is Sanni al-Muluk and al-arz al-Anbia, which was writtento Arabic in 350 AH. There are ten episodes that have been dedicated in several chapterto the history of the kings of Iran, Rome, Greece, the Copts, the Israelites, the Qassani,and Quraysh. The author was heavily patriotic and influenced by Shubia movement,which is very clear in the content of the book. This question arises, what was the basis ofthe insight and method of historiography of Hamzeh Esfahani? The hypothesis is asfollows, his vision is universal and is based on divine appreciation, because it deals withthe history of the various tribes according to divine providence and his methodology isbased on the historiography of the dynasties, which is based on the tradition of Iranianhistoriography. This article with use the method of historical research is based on thedescription and analize, examines the dimensions and angles of the subject gives. Themain findings of the research show, which Hamzeh Esfahani, influenced by SassanidPahlavi texts such as, Xvatai-Namag, as well as with awareness of governments, tribesand various religions, named as the book History of the Prophets and the Kings, So thisway Link and matched between the two and with a clever to draw the attention of thepeople to his book, which is interesting in this regard.