Tradition Method and Transition from it in Islamic Historiography

Abstract

Islamic historiography since the beginning of emergence like many other Islamic sciences experienced two views: textualism and rationalism. Islamic historiography at the beginning was influenced anecdotal approaches, and for this reason, was strongly textualist. The main characteristic of this approach was strong commitment to citation (chain of narrators). But later, gradually there was a tendency in Islamic historiography that out of hand traditionalist was accused of "transition from the citation". Supporters of this trend gradually wanted to free themselves from the shackles of highly anecdotal. These gradual steps later led to a "transition of citation" And ultimately helped to formation of a critical - analytical orientation in Islamic historiography. The first historians finally abandoned the tradition method (citation).

Keywords

• islamic historiography
• citation
• tolerance from the citation
• textualisem
• rationalism