This department was established in 1966 and started its activities with a B.A program. In 1994 the department admitted four students to an M.A program in the sub-discipline of Islamic Iran and in 1998 admitted four students to another M.A program in the sub-discipline of the History of Islam. So far 200 M.A students have been graduated from this department in the sub-disciplines of the History of Islam and the History of Islamic Iran. The department could obtain the permission from the Council for Higher Education Development to launch a PhD program in History in 2001 and admitted the first group of students to this program in the academic year of 2002-2003. So far 47 PhD students majoring in the two subdisciplines of Iran in the Islamic Period and Islam have been graduated from this department. The department could also obtain the permission from the Council for Higher Education Development to launch a PhD program in the subdiscipline of Local History and also an M.A program in the subdiscipline of the History of Persian Gulf Studies in 2007 and started admitting students to these two programs since the academic year of 2008-2009. This department also admitted M.A students to the two subdisciplines of Shiite Studies and Islamic Culture and Civilization. The department also admitted students to a new M.A program in the History of Science (in the subdiscipline of Medicine and Pharmaceutics) in 2012 and launched two PhD programs in the History of Shiism and the History of the Islamic Revolution.