the importance or centrality of persian histories (whether imperial, regional or universal) can be gauged from the deep reliance placed by british historians on them for their own understanding of india’s past. the examples are numerous: dow, erskine, elliot and dowson explored persian sources for their writings. stewart also based his history of bengal mainly on persian materials; mill did not...

The writing of Iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. Portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the Iranian throught world. To have a truly Iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...

versified historiography as a style of historiographycame into being in 6th/12th century iran through imitating ferdowsi’sshāhnāma and reached its height in mongol era. consequently, in less than a century, more than ten versified histories were composed including one of the most famous one, ẓafar-nāma ofḥamd-allāhmostawfi. but it was zojājitabrizi who composed the first versified history, homā...

the writing of iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the iranian throught world. to have a truly iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...

Abstract This article analyzes a little-known practice called iqtirāḥ —“test of poetic talent” or “poetic competition”—that proliferated in twentieth-century Persian-language periodicals. It examines two case studies: one Tehran 1928, which mythologized Nādir Shah (r. 1736–1747), Turko-Persian monarch, as national hero, and Kabul 1932, eulogized Muḥammad 1920–1933), ruling monarch at the time, ...

Abstract: Discourses on Islamization in Indonesia are quite varied, including giving birth to the opinion that Islam originated Gujarat, Mecca, Persia and China. The problem is, discourse about of coming which later became a unified historical story is rarely found. long colonial postcolonial periods. This paper aims elaborate vision according Hoesein Djajadiningrat. argues originates from Pers...