A GLANCE AT THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PAHLAVI ERA

Mohammad Bagher TALEBI1*; Mirhadi HOSSEINI2; Hossein MOFTAKHARI3

A GLANCE AT THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PAHLAVI ERA

Mohammad Bagher TALEBI1*, Mirhadi HOSSEINI2, Hossein MOFTAKHARI3

ABSTRACT

Pahlavi Era is one of the very important epochs of Iran’s history. There are compiled and published many books featuring a multiple array of perspectives regarding the 53-year tenure of Pahlavi inside and outside the country in general or specific forms with diverse qualities and quantities. These works have been presented within the format of memoirs, reports, articles, conversations, interviews, researches and authorships penned by native and foreign writers, Pahlavi family members, proponents and officials involved in that regime and/or its opponents. Many of the valuable works are worthy of reading and they persist; but, some are unfortunately found not immune of personal or religious biases and there are these others replete with historical and misleading mistakes. The judgments made for or against some individuals in the works by writers and speakers are predominantly unilateral and based on personal inferences whereas judging the antecedents should be normative and a result of performing research and it has to, more importantly, take into account the temporal conditions. The average score and the work result of every individual is a scale accepted worldwide for making judgement about the goodness or the badness or serving or betraying. A greater deal of attention has to be paid to this matter in historiography of Pahlavi era. The present study briefly investigates such a historiography.

Keywords: Historiography, Pahlavi, Contemporary

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