Sayyid Muhammad al-Hassani al-Baghdadi and his approach to writing history

Abstract

Al-Saied Mohammed Al-Hasani Al-Baghdadi interpreted history in a philosophical jurisprudential way according to his pure religious culture. In addition, the works and readings from which we drew Al-Baghdadi view to history studied the history from a religious point of view in particular. He skipped out any work related to the origins of western history of all tendencies and schools. Accordingly, we comprehended that his views came to support our interest and understanding of our Islamic heritage in general and our Shiite heritage in particular. This does not imply that Al-Baghdadi adopts a methodological view to history more than an attempt to rewrite and correct the view to Islamic history in general. His purpose of theses attempts is to make the Islamic history related to the historical reality of the Islamic cause with all its stages and periods. By that he is confirming basic cases concerning the nature and purpose of this history on one hand and method of dealing with the Islamic historical records on the other hand which then became the base of our  understanding of this history.