Discourse Analysis of the Factors Influencing the Formation of Sectarian Historiography among Muslims

The historical and intellectual developments underlying the various Islamic sects play a very important role in representing how different theological sects are formed. Therefore, their analysis will yield significant results and is of great importance in the history of theological thoughts. One of these achievements is understanding the background of Sectarian Historiography among the Islamic religions. The present study seeks to address this issue using Laclou's and Mouffe's discourse analysis frameworks to investigate the ongoing conflicts in the Islamic society and its contexts of formation and evolution. In fact, the main issue of this research is to identify and explain the factors that influence the formation of sectarian historiography in the time domain under study, relying on Laclou's and Mouffe's discourse analysis frameworks. The findings indicate that a series of socio-political and religious changes have influenced the process of formation of this style of historiography.