Tarikh Islam

Despite the fact that, the Shi'a clergies, throughout the history of Islamic Iran, have been the most influential and active flow in the various scientific and practical fields, they have a minor role in the field of historiography. The most important reason of this issue, firstly, is the lack of attention to the history and historiography by the seminary and clergies, and secondly, is the domination of the secular intellectual flow on the contemporary Iranian historiography, and denying and distorting the role of the seminary and clergies in historical events especially in the contemporary era. Ignoring the history and historiography by seminaries and the clergies, loses the material and historical information and gives the scope of the historiography of the seminary and clergies to the other streams; particularly the opponents. The historicizing and historiography problems on the issue of seminary and clergies can be studied in two major approaches, the problems that have a seminarial origin, and have emerged from the procedures and methods of the seminaries, and the problems that have a non-seminarial origin, ant it is evident in the western and enlightenment historicizing and historiography.