Editor’s Note

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The emergence of Islam opened a new chapter in the history of humanity, whereby believers and non‐believers alike felt the impact of this religion. The truth of this is evident in the fact that different religions have played a vital role in the transformation, development, and diversification of human cultures and civilizations. This important issue – the impact of Islam – has attracted many authors and researchers across the world, resulting in many thousands of books and articles. Most of these have acknowledged the role of Islam in advancing intellectual activities among Muslims, highlighting in particular a significant and far‐reaching influence on the development of various sciences. History and historiography are among those disciplines that progressed on account of the special attention Muslims paid to Islamic stories, on the one hand, and their interest in recording the Prophet’s (pbuh) sunna, on the other. The documentation that began with imparting the traditions of the Prophet (pbuh) to the migrants and newly converted Muslims of Medina, and which flourished with accounts of the battles and ghazavat (wars against infidels) during his life and the story of Islamic victories under the early caliphs, very soon developed into different genres and branches of scholarship. Like a vast cradle, history fostered other branches of knowledge, in which the history of religions and religious groups played a great part.