الكتب المصنفة في تاريخ خراسان

Abstract EN

The province of Khorasan is considered as one of the most important Islamic regions among the regions associated with the Arab Islamic State in the Rashidi, Umayyad and Abbasid1 periods.

Thus, the ancient historians gave a great attention to the news of this region, and the news of its cities, villages, walis (governors) and scholars.

The reason for this is perhaps that this province since its opening by the Arabs, many Arab tribes settled in it, until it was about and so close to be part of the Arab land, in that the Arab Islamic culture merged with the cultures, customs and traditions of Persian, until the Arabic language became the language of culture and politics till a late time.

Hence, many Khorasan scholars had written their works in Arabic and not in their local language such as Persian and Turkish.

It is no secret that this province was one of the richest parts of Persia and had an influential role in the political events and in determining the fate of the Umayyad state.

It played a major role in the Abbasid state afterwards.

Despite the availability of the historical material on Khorasan, yet the researcher finds that most of this material is concerned with the political and military aspects of the details of revolutions, seditions and movements, as well as the change of walis (governors) and whatever related to administration and politics.

Also, there was a considerable material on the social life of this province.

The first of these historians comes Al-Haitham Ibn Ady Al-Ta'i in loyalty (died 207AH/822AD) who wrote about the social conditions of the Arabs in Khorasan as well as the historians who classified the administrative and political conditions in this province like Abi Obeida Muammar bin Al-Muthanna and Al-Mada'ini whom the researcher addressed in this study with some detail.

He also balanced between these works and compiles and he analyzed them.

He also studies their methods and styles in writing about Khorasan despite the loss of those works and compiles, yet many of their texts remained in the books of late historians who saved and preserved some of them for us.