Rationality and teaching of history in Nahj al-Balagheh

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Visiting Lecturer, Department of History Education, Allameh Tabatabaei Campus, Farhangian University, Khorramabad, Iran

10.48310/rhe.2025.20530.1173

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History is the description of the social life of the past of mankind. This science has benefits for various professions, including rulers and people in various professions. The Holy Quran invites people to travel the earth and the stories of the past and learn lessons from their lives. This invitation to travel through history is not just for entertainment and storytelling, but rather the purpose is to take lessons from the past and build the life of the present and the future. Nahj al-Balagha also pays special attention to history, relying on the Quran. The question is why, how, and from what dimensions does Nahj al-Balagha teach history. This research was written in a descriptive-analytical manner and library studies, relying on the Holy Quran and Nahj al-Balagha. It has reached the fact that Nahj al-Balagha, in addition to relying on heavenly teachings and the Quran, with its special rationality and wisdom in teaching history, directly emphasizes important matters such as education and thinking, study, reasoning, insight, understanding, and science. As a distinguished scholar, it has expressed historical events and scenes with scholarly and artistic rationality to teach humans lessons for building the present and future and worldly and hereafter affairs.

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Research in History Education
Volume 5, Issue 4 - Serial Number 12
November 2025
Pages 55-70

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  • Receive Date: 14 August 2024
  • Revise Date: 20 October 2024
  • Accept Date: 03 November 2024

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