Abstract
The history of the world began with human creation and consciousness. And with the passage of time came the expansion and innovation in historiography. The Greeks have credited with the formal beginning of historiography. Hycuts was the first person to start writing the events of history in a scattered manner. Herodotus later began the work of historiography on the basis of this effort. Herodotus was called the father of history. Similarly, historiography was transferred from the Greeks to the Romans and then the advent of Islam made historiography not just an art but an industry. Islamic historiography began during the Prophet's time when it was writing with Quran and Hadeth. Later several people started to write the biography of Prophet and many others. Among them Imam Zahri, Muhammad Bin Ishaq, Ibn-e-Hisham, Waqdi and many others. This paper is an attempt to highlight the basic concept of historiography and Islamic contribution in historiography during the early Muslim era to 350 A.H.
Highlights
This paper primarily deals with the topic Islamic contribution of Historiography in early Muslim’s era
Islam emphasized on genuine historiography, while the 2nd and 3rd century AH were remarkable in the development of Muslim historiography which converted from Quran and Hadith to Seerah and Maghazi first and biographies and other aspects of the history
The paper is an attempt to highlight the trends of early Muslim Historiography and its influence
Summary
This paper primarily deals with the topic Islamic contribution of Historiography in early Muslim’s era. Islam is a universal religion and it delivered a lesson to its followers that to get knowledge is a religious obligation. On the teaching of Islam Muslims involved every field of knowledge. Muslims were the patronage of historiography and converted from art to industry. In this early phase of Islamic historiography Muslims historians played a marvelous role in the progress of historiography. This paper provides a brief explanation about the early Muslims concept towards philosophy of history and historiography, how the Muslims historian worked and wrote books and what measures had been taken by them to explore the originality of the events which occurred
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