Document Type : Scientific-Research

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PhD graduate of Economic Sociology and Development, School of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The main question of the present article is what is the beginning of the birth and emergence of the racial reading in the history of Iran. (zero degree) and on the basis of which discourse formulation, this racial reading of history as a comprehensive discourse order in contemporary Iranian historiography (from the Qajar period to the end of Pahlavi II reign), found a discourse definition and became hegemonic, and what results it produced. Akhundzadeh and Kermani, as subjects of the racial reading discourse in Iran, were the first ones who promoted the anti-Arab ideology and by presenting a systematic and systematic analysis of the racial reading, made it a discourse formulation in Iranian historiography. In paleontological language and from the perspective of the analysis of thought systems, the racial thoughts of Akhundzadeh and Kermani in Iranian historiography acted as forces that created their own subjects as discourse systems. Akhundzadeh, Kermani and Jalaluddin Mirza took advantage of the texts of the Azarkivians (Safavid period) as "ideological" texts, in the role of primary carriers and subjects of contemporary, antiquarian and racial discourse. The order of discourse resulting from the racist reading of Iranian romantic nationalists can be found in the works and writings of historians after them, such as Hassan Pirnia, Abbas Iqbal Ashtiani, Saeed Nafisi, Ebrahim Pourdaoud, Zabihullah Safa, Gholamreza Rashid Yasmi, and other historians and intellectuals after Akhundzadeh and Kermani. These historians and intellectuals, as the subjects of this discourse and in the same framework and discourse space of racial reading of Iran's history, in writing their historical works, will definitely dedicate a chapter or an important part of their books to racial discussions with the titles of "Iranian race", "Aryan race" ", Khoon Irani and... have been dedicated, which clearly shows the determination of the discursive order of racial reading in Iranian historiography. This racial historiography and reading with the sanctification and empathetic emphasis on the "Sasanian" dynasty as a utopia was connected with the racist and antiquarian discourse and found a discourse determination and became hegemonic in the historiography of contemporary Iran. As a result of speech systems resulting from Nejadi's reading of Iranian history, the theoretical grounds for "blaming" Iranians (specifically Arabs) and "considering them the cause of all the misfortunes of Iranians" were provided.

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