History as a Rule-governed Phenomenon in the Quran in Shahid Sadr's View "Shahid Sadr's Quranic Views and his Innovations in Theoretical Philosophy of History"

The extended domain of history, failure to capture history in its overall aspects, impossibility of testing historical theories as it occurs in empirical sciences, and the fact that historical propositions are thought to be susceptible to error have made it very difficult to prove that history is rule-governed, and to extract the established precedents(sunnahs)governing history through historical studies, so that many theories presented by those who claim to have discovered rules of history are nullified after a lapse of time. In such circumstances, resorting to infallible teachings of revelation can open a way notpossible through science.In the present paper, Shahid Sadr's Quranic attitudes and deduction on the principle of rule-governedness of history and some established precedents governing history have been stated in a brief, ordered and consistent manner. Shahid Sadr has deduced - from the Holy Qur’an - innovative views in some of the areas of philosophy of history, whichdeserve attention and investigation