Author | Rasul Jafarian |
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Original title | تاریخ سیاسی اسلام |
Translator | Ali Hashem al-Asadi (to Arabic)
[1]
[2] Ali Ebrahimi (to English) [3] Tarek Habib (to Urdu) [4] |
Country | Iran |
Language | Persian, English, Urdu |
Series | 2 volumes |
Subject | Analytical history of Islam from a political perspective |
Publisher |
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Pesian edition)
[5] Dalile Ma (Pesian edition) [6] [7] Ansarian (English edition) [8] Islamic Research Foundation (Arabic edition) [9] |
Publication date | 1994
[5] and 2001
[10] (Persian edition) 2003 (English edition) [3] 2005 (Urdu edition) [11] 2006 (Arabic edition) [9] |
Pages | (Persian edition) 692 (1st volume) [12] 828 (2nd volume) [13] |
The Political History of Islam ( Persian: تاریخ سیاسی اسلام) is a two-volume book by Rasul Jafarian. The first volume is entitled "The life conduct of the Prophet (of Islam)" in 692 pages [12] and the second volume is entitled "History of the Caliphs" in 828 pages. [13] The book has been translated into English, [8] [3] Arabic [14] [15] [16] and Urdu. [17] [11]
The author Rasul Jafarian states in a part of the introduction of this collection: [8]
"The author admits that his judgments are not in accordance with reality in all cases; Because he is not necessarily an expert in all of these courses and is not familiar with the sources, especially the newly published research sources. However, as can be obtain text from the resources, an attempt has been made to consider the olden sources in each section."
In the first volume of this two-volume book, which has been published with an analytical approach, called "The life conduct of the Prophet (of Islam)", examines the political history of Islam from life to the death of Mohammad Ibn Abdullah. But in the second volume called "History of the caliphs from the death of the messenger(s) to the decline of the umayyad", in addition to reviewing events, biography, and the origins of the first caliphs and the history of evolution of the two dynasties of the Umayyad and Abbasid, the life of Shiite Imams has also been discussed. [18] [19]
This volume is written in 7 chapters that they are:
This volume is compiled in 12 main sections that they are:
This two-volume book, in addition to the subject of several interviews and reports, [26] [27] [28] has been criticized. [29]