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Characteristics of English Historiography and the Production of Reverse Narratives in Recording the Developments of Contemporary Iran
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Mohsen Momeni *   |
| PhD Student in Islamic Revolution Teaching, Qom, Iran. , karbala.m@gmail.com |
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Abstract: (940 Views) |
The issue that this research seeks to answer is the study of some characteristics of English historiography in the way it narrates contemporary Iranian history. The English have written history for different periods of Iran, whether pre-Islamic Iran, Islamic Iran, or contemporary Iranian history, to the extent that they were able to. Studying the works and writings of English historians leads us to characteristics that are repeated in most of these works and, overall, indicate a style of historiography that we call "English historiography." This historiographical method has several important criteria and characteristics: “the dominance of a self-interested and colonialist perspective”, “recording the smallest details with the aim of increasing the circle of information”, “careful not to reveal the role of England in the events”, “denoting the servants of the nation as traitors and vice versa” and other cases that include more than ten cases. In the present article, we will discuss two of the most important of these characteristics, namely “colonial perspective” and “intelligence aristocracy”, along with numerous examples from English sources and reports about contemporary Iran. |
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| Keywords: Colonialism, England, Orientalism, History, English Historiography, Contemporary History of Iran, Historiography of the Islamic Revolution. |
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