Insights and attitudes of clerics and historians in contemporary Iranian historiography (After the Islamic Revolution of 1979)

In the period after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, clerics were present in the form of an influential movement in all political, social and cultural fields. In addition, in theoretical areas, including in the field of historiography, they were also brought up as an active spectrum in the formation of the Islamic historiography current, the basis and intellectual basis of this current, an understanding of the teachings of Islam, the Shia religion and the Islamic government was formed.The purpose of this research is to investigate the insight and attitude of Shia clerics in the formation and continuation of Islamic historiography after the Islamic revolution, especially that some clerics appeared as writers and researchers in the field of history after the victory of the revolution and began to compile and write books. They made history. The hypothesis of this research is that, influenced by the Islamic Revolution, a new range of clerical historians started compiling and producing historiographical sources with the support of the government of the Islamic Republic in the form of official historiography.The method and approach of this research is descriptive-analytical based on documentary and library sources. Also, the findings of this research show that compared to the vast volume of historiographical sources after the revolution in the country, the production and writing of historical works by clerics occupies an acceptable range and leads to the development and sometimes the form The flow of Islamic.