Document Type : Scientific-Research

Authors

• Rasoul Mazaheri ¹
• Soheila Torabi Farsani ²
• Shokoh Arabi Hashemi ³

¹ PhD Candidate in History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of History, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch

³ Assistant Professor, Department of History, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch

Abstract

The local historiography of the Qajar period changed under the influence of this period's political and social developments. This study examined three indicators in 6 works of local post-constitutional historiography by introducing them: nationalism (archaism), the reflection of constitutional political events in these works, and lack of overseas attitudes and perspectives. This study aimed to determine the extent to which local post-constitutional histories were influenced by the constitutional movement and writers' positions about this. The data was examined using the library method and descriptive-analytical method. The research results indicated that Bakhtiari history and Evaz Delgosha's history were pro-constitutional and somewhat familiar with the concepts of nationalism and reflected them in the same way. Still, the two anti-constitutional works, Asar-al-Reza and Nesf-e-Jahan History, were disregarding nationalism and constitutional events. Two books of Bandar Abbas and the Persian Gulf and the history of Larestan, which have expressed a neutral position, reflected nationalism. Still, they did not address the constitutional events, and in general, did not have a broad and foreign perspective.

Keywords

• local History
• Qajar
• Constitutionalism
• Historiography
• Nationalism