The Religious-Ethnic Approach in the Futūḥ-Writings of the Islamic Period; A Study on Futūḥ Al-Miṣr va Akhbāruha by Ibn ‘Abd al-Hakam

Futūḥ Misr va Akhbāruha by Ibn Abd Al-Hakam is one of the works on Futūh in Early Islamic Historiography that was written about Western Islamic Lands, especially Egypt. The pioneering nature of this book, which historians have used since then, makes it necessary to obtain the historical approach of Ibn Abd Al-Hakam and what affecting his historiography. This issue has been considered in this research with a partial view of the narratives of the mentioned book. On this basis, firstly, the importance of historical information of this book in the course of Islamic Futūḥ-writings has been examined and then based on ethnic and religious-jurisprudential attitudes that can be recognized in the historical thought of Ibn-Abd al-Hakim, his way of narrating the process of Muslim conquests in Egypt is studied. In many cases, those attitudes have been used in parallel with each other in the book's narrations