An Introduction to the Descriptive Bibliography of the Islamic History of Victories

The victories of Islam can be looked at from two points of view. First of all, it should be regarded that conquering Iran is considered as a turning point in all its cultural and civilized developments. Secondly, it is the issue of conquest and development of the geographical borders which is taken as a historical-religious phenomenon, and is a principal matter in the international Islamic and non-Islamic laws. In order to acknowledge different hidden aspects of the mentioned subject, we should, in the first step, introduce and study the sources of the history of victories. Before analyzing these sources, the author in the following study discusses the ways of collecting and compiling different narrations about victories, the first documents written upon victories, and the academic centers which search about them. Following this, he introduces different useful books with regard to this topic from various fields such as jurisprudence, hadith, biography and genealogy, history, the study of men, the study of the biography of the prophet Muhammad, general history, local history, geography, and bibliography. Finally, he points out the novel searches which have been carried out in this field.