Sacred History and Its Place in the Development of Historiography of Islamic Seminaries in the Last Century

Sacred history is a branch of historiography whose subject is selected based on or in connection with religious concepts and teachings of heavenly books, and by reviewing different interpretations of it, it can be considered as the concept of the history of human guidance based on religion and its tools. Common historiography in Islamic seminaries, with an emphasis on Islamic seminary of Qom in the last one hundred years, is a clear example for sacred history, but in the last three decades, a desire and potential to deal with other branches of historiography has emerged in the Islamic seminary. This article, while enumerating the characteristics of sacred history in seminaries and the variety of writings that have appeared under it, has taken a look at the factors and consequences of dealing with other branches of historiography in Islamic seminaries in the last two or three decades and has considered worrisome consequences for the increasing efforts of the proponents of the sacred history since they are willing to return the Islamic seminary to the sacred history with all its value and usefulness.