EPISODE · Jan 29, 2026 · 2 MIN
What is Critical Historiography?
from Orientalistics: Podcast on Language, Religion and Culture · host Farshid Delshad
What is Critical Historiography?Modern historical research shows that no contemporary, non-Muslim sources document the life of Muhammad in the seventh century. The earliest surviving biography, Ibn Hisham’s Sīra, appears about two centuries later. Unlike Judaism, Christianity, or Zoroastrianism, early Islamic history relies almost entirely on later internal traditions, raising serious historiographical questions.بررسی تاریخنگاری نشان میدهد هیچ منبع همزمان و غیرمسلمان از سدهى هفتم به زندگی محمد پيامبر مسلمانان اشارهاى نمیکند. كهنترین سیرهٔ باقیمانده حدود دویست سال پس از مرگ وى نوشته شده. برخلاف یهودیت، مسیحیت و آيين زرتشت، روایت آغازین اسلام عمدتاً بر منابع متأخر دروندینی تکیه دارد و نیازمند نقد تاریخی است#historicalmethod ; #earlyislam ; #historiography ; #criticalhistory ; #religiousstudies ; #primarysources
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