Scientific and intellectual developments, along with methodological advancements in various disciplines in the contemporary centuries, posed serious challenges to the field of history and called its scientific nature into question. In the face of this crisis, historians gradually redefined the principles and foundations of their discipline, and consequently, both the theoretical domain of historiography and the insights and methods of historians were transformed. The waves of new historiography gradually swept across other lands, and contemporary Iranian historians were also influenced by them. One such historian, whose academic field was literature but who managed to approach the boundaries of academic and scientific historiography in his works, is Ali-Akbar Fayyaz. The present research aims to examine, critique, and explain the principles of historical research employed by this historian. Accordingly, the main question of the research can be posed as follows: What are the methods of historical research used by Ali-Akbar Fayyaz, and can they be considered methodical and based on scientific frameworks? It seems that the most important components of this historian's historiography include clarity of expression, avoidance of prejudice and bias, observance of fairness, a distinct literary style in historical writing, a coherent and accurate representation of historical events in a concise and reportorial format, the use of multiple sources, n. However, evidence suggests that in the realm of method, he has approached the boundaries of academic historiography. On this basis, Ali-Akbar Fayyaz might perhaps be introduced as a "neo-traditionalist" historian.