The Elements Effective on the Development of Sectarian Historiography among Muslims

Sectarian historiography is considered as a kind of Islamic historiography and the consequence of theologians’ considering the history of evolution of thoughts and the development regarding the religious beliefs as well as the intellectual and cultural currents in the world of Islam.
The present research, taking advantage of the main sources as well as the analytical-descriptive method, is to investigate the grounds and elements effective on the development of sectarian historiography and its relationship to the historiography.The findings of this research indicate that the social-political atmosphere of Islamic community in Abbasid era (132-656 A.H), the translation of non-Islamic texts along with the religious thoughts, the sectary conditions of Sectarian historiographers and the reliance on the historiography methods considerably affected the development of the sources related to the sectarian historiography.