This essay highlights the importance of history as a discipline and a branch of knowledge in early Islamic intellectual life. It first underlines that Islam, as a creed and culture, is a history-conscious religion that was born among the Arabs, who inherited well-established methodologies of oral tradition and writing of genealogies from their history-loving ancestors, thus facilitating the formation of history as a branch of revealed knowledge (naqli) along with ‘ilm al-hadith and ‘ilm al-taf?sir as early as by the second century after the hijrah. The second part of the chapter discusses the importance of the sirah of the Prophet (pbuh) for early scholars in order to understand the Qur’?n and ??adiths as sources of the revealed knowledge. Consequently, independent schools of history emerged in Madinah, Yemen and Iraq in the way of writing the biography of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) and fut?h??t narrations. The usage of isn?d system to examine the credibility of sources accelerated the development of history as a science with critical method from the early times of Islamic history. Lastly, the chapter highlights the further expansion of types of historical writings such as tar?jim, tabaq?t, rihlat, and methodology of writing history up to al-?ab?ri’s era.