Ibn al-Jawzi’s Books of Manaqib (The Dialectic of Historical Recording and the Projections of His time)

It is known that historical texts are the mirror of their era, as they reflect the image of the rulers and the public according to what was stated in the expressions of the writer of the text or what he quoted from those who preceded him. Therefore, the psychological factors and the environment are what determine the nature of the text and what it is, and there is no doubt that the books of virtues are the product of an era in which Tendencies that influenced in one way or another what we got from them, and that the classification in the virtues of a city indicates belonging to it or loving it or its religious status, as well as the classification in the virtues of personalities, which in essence expresses the satisfaction or discontent experienced by the writer of the classification and thus the text as a historical record is a translation of a case And the writer's feeling .