Position and flaunts of Nationalism in the first Pahlavi era history textbooks

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

FARSHID MEHRI ¹ , reza SHAABANI ² , GOBAD MANSOUR BAKHT ³

1 - PHD STUDENT , SCIENCE AND RESEARCH BRANCH, ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY, TEHRAN , IRAN
2 - ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY
3 - HISTORY DEWPARTMENT OF SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY

Received: 2016-01-26 Accepted : 2016-10-06 Published : 2017-04-21

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Abstract :

  After the rise of Reza Shah and the formation of the first Pahlavi regime, principal codification of textbooks and synchronization of that with Pahlavi regime nationalism features    was agenda by the Ministry of Education in beginning this era. Accordingly, the Ministry of Education order to develop history textbooks offered some authors approved by the government and   the their books was  taught after reviewing Commission and after final approval of the Supreme Council of Education as the official history books in primary and secondary schools and in higher education at a later stage. Also , the first Pahlavi era nationalist index was found in  archaism ,  Iranian nationalism, patriotism and  Shah friendship effects , influenced on  both secondary and primary school history textbooks . Undoubtedly, the attitude style of the authors of the books in the selection of their demands was consistent with the objectives regime at the time. It is worth noting nation – building and nationalism concept of within the context of history textbook content of this period are  provided  in two positive aspect (Iranian descent, Iranian homeland, Iran's glorious greatness with  Archaism approach) and negative aspect  (Tazian  and Turanian ) in the present paper  these cases are investigated in detail.