Islamic Insight and Attitude in Writing History (A case study of Ibn-Motahhar Maqdesi's history-writing)

Although writing history started to develop very rapidly at the same time as the completion of Islamic civilization, but it didn’t have a good philosophical development and dynamic. It was best analyzed with a theological approach a method affected by Hadith and Rijal rules. Nevertheless some exceptional figures such as Ibn-Motahhar Maqdesi worked somehow different from others and had a more specific look at the subject. In his “Al-Bad’ va Tarikh”, Ibn-Motahhar has a kind of epistemological look at subjects and although in the historical parts of the book the epistemological aspect is weakened, but he has a more analytic and critical at the historical events compared to other historians. In this article, first the general attitude toward Islamic history-writing is explained, and then the history-writing attitude of Ibn-Motahhar is investigated.