Local Historiography under the Qajarid Dynasty
Journal Title: تاریخ و فرهنگ - Year 2011, Vol 43, Issue 86
Abstract
Local historiography in Iran, precedence of which can be traced back to the Iranian pre-Islamic era, saw a golden age of quantitative and qualitative growth under the Qajar dynasty.Hence,most of our country's cities and rigions possessed at least one local history.After examining some fifty printed works on local histories of the Qajarid period, it has been studied in the article the characteristics and causes of this literary movement and the components of this kind of historiography.A survey of the historygrapher's motives receives attention in this article too.
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Abd Al-Mahadi Rajaee, Mohammad ’Ali Chelongar, Morteza Nooraee
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