Observations on Sources for the Study of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Iranian History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8966800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hafez F Farmayan (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-49 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743800032773 |
| OpenAlex | W2039808855 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Until recently, most works dealing with nineteenth-century Iran have had special points of view which now are hopelessly out of date. Concerned only with aspects of nineteenth-century Iran, they have treated these subjects either in connection with literature or with the rivalry of the European imperialist powers. Whatever the merits of these works, they may be said to have outlived their main usefulness. The age of imperialism is gone; and though the classical Persian literature of a thousand years may well be immortal, its creative spirit is dust. In Iran, as elsewhere, modern men have drastically altered their political, historical, and literary views. We now need histories of other kinds. It is time to explore and to research. Too much which is published on Iranian history continues to be either shallow, narrow, cliché-littered imitations of the not-so-great historians of the past, or are official glorifications of Iran's present, not always consistent with the truth. The field requires a widely extended and earnest historical inquiry into the development of modern Iranian society through the exploration of its recent past. An investigation of the social structure of nineteenth-century Persia, for instance, is absolutely essential to an understanding of the behavior of the present-day Iranian bureaucracy, which is often inexplicable to the Western observer. When the Persia of the peasants, the mullâs and the mîrzâs , is brought into clear perspective behind the Iran of the National Iranian Oil Company and the Plan Organization, we shall be in a position to understand the complexities of the present Iranian administrative machinery and the broad spectrum of motivation of its maintenance men
Ancient history · Art · Bureaucracy · Literature · Persian · Political science · Politics · Rivalry · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
Popular Entertainment, Media and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Iran
Iranian Relations With Great Britain and British India, 1798–1921
Iranian Foreign Policy, 1921–1979
Iranian Relations With Russia and the Soviet Union, to 1921
The Pahlavī Autocracy
Religious Forces in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century Iran
Iran Under the Later Qājārs, 1848–1922
The Cambridge History of Iran
Printing, the Press and Literature in Modern Iran
The evolution of an Iranian historian
Truth and method in modern Iranian historiography and social sciences
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 1995 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |