Title: The Historiography of the Persian Gulf: A Survey of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Persian Sources
Abstract: A brief review of the critical primary sources on the Persian Gulf written in Persian reveals a situation not very different from the general state of Persian historiography. A few years prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, an Iranian professor of history assessed that "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 [the Pahlavi regime], 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."1KeywordsForeign AffairNational ArchiveGulf Cooperation CouncilPort CityIslamic RepublicThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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