Tarikh Islam

Since history is the most important context for human's growth and development, it is also regarded as one of the important sources for his identity. What we can get from history depends on our approach to it. The religious approach and the material approach are the two general and essential approaches to history which are different in a significant way. From a religious viewpoint, spiritual, celestial and supernatural factors, along with the material and sensible factors and even some other ones, are influential as far as the destiny and major orientation of history is concerned. From a material viewpoint, history has a naturally determined course, is of little validity as to the statement of truth, has merely empirical and material tool for analysis, is of merely temporal order, and finally has little admonitory force. In this paper, an attempt has been made to testify these differences.