Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Tarbiat Modarres University
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Siences, Alameh Tabatabai University
Abstract
The Mongol Ilkhanid Rule over Iran which began after the conquest of Baghdad and the collapse of five hunderedyears reign under Abbasid Dynasty had some important side effects on Iranian culture and politics but above all was the revival of Iranian identity and awareness of intellectuals and Officials regarding the historical condition and state of affairs within the restriction of their own territories. Hamdollah Mostofi Qhazvini is one of the well known writers who has valuable writing on subjects such as history, geography and epic. Those have helped in clarifying Iran`s historical identity. In the book Nozhat-al-Qoloob, he has illustrated Iran as an ancient country with distinct borders and has explained about its province. In his Zafarnameh, which is an epic poem using the Ferdowsi style, he has given very much significanc to the concept and identity of Iran. In this remarkable works, Mostowfi has persistently acclaimed and mentioned “Iran” and “Iranians” following the jovayni and Rashid alddin Fazlallah By using Iran as a conceptual centre, he has tried to assimilate the Mongol rulers into the life style and policy of ancient Iranian Kings. The Zafarname reveals Mostowfi's thought about the continuation of the concept of Iran according to the ancient royalty during the Islamic epoch and the construction of an Iranian-Islamic Renaissance.
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