Mohammad Arkoun is considered as one of the contemporary Arab thinkers being of significant part related to the development of conception and interpretation from history in the present studies. In this writing which is concerned with reviewing his method intended for the comprehension of history of Islam, it has been mentioned the concept of historical methodology and following the review of his general research methods, the way of his historical criticism has been studied.
Arkoun has developed this method for the purpose of investigating one of the most important era of history of Islam, Umayyad and Abbasid era, and the most important elements of this new method is the intellectual analysis and criticism of historical sources
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