-Subjective and objective in modern islamic historical writing -problems and solutions

Abstract

Islamic historical writing went through phases and stages that ceased to appear, starting with the main motive that led Muslims to write it down. Represented in the biography of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and up to the movement of conquests and the expansion of the Islamic state and the subsequent settlement in the regions, which made the Muslim historian thinking about writing his history to save it from being lost. The landmarks of the recording of historical writing began to appear in the second century AH after they were verbally conveying the same status as the hadith of the Prophet. In this century, features of historical writing trends appeared, expressed in four schools.

Two schools emerged from them: The Hijaz School in Medina, and the School of Kufa in Iraq, but one who contemplates the movement of historical writing finds that it stood on the thresholds of some of the problems that impeded its movement, including: The problem of bias and objectivity, the latter robbed it of its holistic human character. Thinking has made contemporary thinking focus on finding solutions that correct the vision and promote historical writing the ranks of scientific and objective accuracy.