Tarikh Islam

The social history and its related changes have recently been considered. A research on this field, not only seems necessary to understand the historins' social and historical methods, factors, components and views, but also makes considerable changes in inferences drawn about the reasons of emergence, collapse, prosperity of societies in the past. Therefore, it can be claimed that it is necessary to review, or even rewrite, many historical works written so far without a consideration of social history. It seems a strenuous task to do a research on the social history of the present Islamic era, and that of the Shi'is, in particular, due to its dispersal in numerous sources and the lack of early sources dedicated to this issue. This article is the result of a research Conducted on some of the factors and elements of the Shi'is' social history in the early half of the 9th century (800-850 AH). This period is coincident with the Timurid reign all over Iran and some other neighboring rigions, and some aspects of the social history of that period has been investigated