This journal has been published quarterly since the autumn of 2002, with the aim of publishing specialized scholarly articles in the fields of the history of Islam and Shiism, the lives of the Shiite Imams, and Islamic history and civilization. To date, it has published four preliminary issues and 28 regular issues. The publisher of this journal is the Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute (may God sanctify his soul). Its Managing Director is Hojjat al-Islam Dr. Mohammad Reza Jabari, and its Editor-in-Chief is Hojjat al-Islam Javad Soleimani.