Nationalist historiography in Qajar era

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

masoud tarzemani ¹ , Masomeh gharadaghi ² , abbas ghadimi ghidari ³ , manijeh sadri ⁴

1 - history department, shabestar branch,,islamic Azad university, shabestar . iran
2 - Department of History, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran (Corresponding Author)
3 - history department, tabriz university, tabriz , iran
4 - history department, shabestar branch,, islamic azad university,shabestar,iran

Received: 2020-10-20 Accepted : 2020-12-24 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Nationalism, Archeology, Akhundzadeh, Jalaluddin Mirza, Agha Khan Kermani,

Abstract :

Following the confrontation of Qajar Iran in the second half of the 19th century with the Western world, important changes took place in the political and intellectual foundations of Iranians. Historiography, like other sectors, was influenced by global developments, so that changes were made in the insights and methods of historiography of historians of this period, and steps were taken to move towards a new historiography.By changing the tradition of Iranian historiography and changing its form from the traditional form to the modern form, historians such as Akhundzadeh, Jalaluddin Mirza, Agha Khan Kermani, Talibov Tabrizi, focusing on nationalism, rewrote the history of Iran in the past centuries and highlighted The history of ancient Iran and the inclusion of this period as the period of national life of Iran laid the foundations of the national identity of modern Iran based on ancient identityIn this article, the emergence of nationalist historiography and its contexts and characteristics in Qajar Iran have been studied and analyzed by descriptive-analytical method.