Tarikh Islam

The importance of the event of Ashura and the historians’ efforts for recording it from the first centuries of Hijri onwards led to a wide range of studies about it. This process continued in the last century with the centrality of the Qom seminary and the change in the past methods. The studies carried out in this period were influenced by the political and social currents of the Pahlavi era such as the revolutionary movements and the activity of the intellectual currents of religious traditional thought, modern thought and dissidence, and in the direction of confronting some superstitions. Using the method of "typology of Ashura studies", this article seeks to categorize the effective currents and show that, contrary to the historical approach of the past that continued until the Qajar era, these studies have had a central role in creating an explanatory and analytical approach and an evolutionary path in this field of studies through the influence of the aforementioned currents and explaining the goals and analyzing the causes and results of Ashura.