Tarikh Islam

The term "Modern History" or "Comprehensive History" denotes a change and development occurred in two spheres of method and subject matter of history as a science. This view of history represents more the western historians' approach to the science of history. In the present study, an attempt has been made to reread Masoudi's works to prove that what we call 'modern history' today – whose most outstanding feature is the variety of subjects and an analytical look at events-traces its thousand-year history back to the Islamic civilization. This study seeks to explore Masoudi's various approaches, both in the sphere of method of historiography, with its analytical view of events and facts, and in the domain of such major subjects of science of history as sciences, geography, environment, culture and society. Besides, a brief discussion has been raised on Masoudi's theoretical procedures.