Local Historiography under the Qajarid Dynasty

تاریخ و فرهنگ

Article 2, Volume 43, Issue 1 - Serial Number 86, June 2011   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/history.v0i0.12955

Authors

Abd al-Mahadi Rajaee^* ; Mohammad ’Ali Chelongar; Morteza Nooraee

Abstract

Local historiography in Iran, precedence of which can be traced back to the Iranian pre-Islamic era, saw a golden age of quantitative and qualitative growth under the Qajar dynasty.Hence,most of our country's cities and rigions possessed at least one local history.After examining some fifty printed works on local histories of the Qajarid period, it has been studied in the article the characteristics and causes of this literary movement and the components of this kind of historiography.A survey of the historygrapher's motives receives attention in this article too.

Keywords

Qajarid Period; Local Historiography; E'temad al-saltaneh; Manikji Limoji