Differences and changes in the official Qajar history of history from Fath Ali Shah to Nasir al-Din Shah

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

Shahla Mansouri Ghavamabadi ¹ , Soheila Torabi Farasani ² , Faizollah Boussof Corner ³

1 - Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran [e-mail]
2 - Associate Professor, Department of History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran. [e-mail]
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University Najafabad, Iran.

Received: 2017-08-15 Accepted : 2018-01-30 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: Qajar, court, Key words: historiography, official historiography, traditional historiography, new historiography,

Abstract :

Official historiography texts in the Qajar period have changed due to political and socialchanges and connections with the West, and a familiarity with the historical works of theWest, and created new insights in historiography. During this period, two types ofhistoric studies with different approaches to the official historians Was used. Thebeginning of the Qajar period until the end of Muhammad Shah's period and the earlyperiod of the Nazarene period was more or less traditional in traditional historiography,and in the middle of the Nazari period, some changes were made in the history of history.Considering the necessity of the historiography of this period and the importance of thebooks written by the historians, this paper examines this Two types of officialhistoriography look at and answer the question: What differences can be observed in thehistoriography of this period?The method of this historical research is descriptive-analytic, based on library studiesand archival documents.