Şarkiyat

Abstract

The Annales School, which emerged in France in the early twentieth century, put forward a historiography centered on society, looking at history from an interdisciplinary perspective and building on a problem-oriented understanding of history instead of an event narrative. With this new approach, Annales offered a strong alternative to political history, which had dominated historiography until then, and succeeded in breaking its hegemony. Although there are some differences among its members, in general, in the approach of the Annales School, history is constructed through geographical, chronological, social, economic and mental frameworks. The writing of sirah, which we evaluate in terms of the application ground of the Annales, is based on the chronological event narrative centering on the hero as the dominant tendency from classical times to the present. Nevertheless, new searches in this field are noteworthy, and there are examples of changes in subject determination and writing methods. Contemporary sirah writing is based on the works compiled in the classical period as a source. In determining whether the narrations in these sources allow the application of Annalesist approaches, it is important to determine the Annales principles and to examine the sirah sources in terms of these principles. This study examines the possibility of new expansions in terms of subject and presentation in sirah through the approaches of the Annales School.