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HISSAR, TEPE
Cross-Reference
(Tappa Ḥeṣār), prehistoric site located just south of Dāmḡān in northeastern Persia. See TEPE HISSAR.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY
Multiple Authors
This entry is concerned with the historiography of the Iranian and Persephone world from the pre-Islamic period through the 20th century in Persian and other Iranian languages. The periods and their subdivisions of this historiography are covered in 14 articles.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY i. INTRODUCTION
Elton Daniel
Historiography, literally, is the study not of history but of the writing of history. In modern usage, this term covers a wide range of related but distinct areas of inquiry.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY ii. PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD
A. SH. Shahbazi
Iranian historiography remained unaffected by the Herodotean school and developed from oral traditions and the Mesopotamian-style “quasi-history,” which embellished historical narratives.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY iii. EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD
Elton L. Daniel
It might be questioned whether there is, strictly speaking, any “historiography of Persia in the early Islamic period” at all, since it is by no means clear that there was an Islamic “Persia” prior to the rise of the Safavids.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY iv. MONGOL PERIOD
Charles Melville
Persian historiography reached its maturity during the period of 13th-15th centuries, which might broadly be described as the Turko-Mongol era.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY v. TIMURID PERIOD
Maria Szuppe
Timurid historiography is firmly rooted within the Persian literary tradition of official court histories of the post-Mongol period.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY vi. SAFAVID PERIOD
Sholeh Quinn
Safavid historiography, although developing unique features of its own, had its origins in the eastern Timurid tradition that was centered in Herāt.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY vii. AFSHARID AND ZAND PERIODS
Ernest Tucker
Persian historical writing in the 18th century reflected the profound changes that occurred in Iran after the1722 Afghan conquest of Isfahan.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY viii. QAJAR PERIOD
Abbas Amanat
In the century and a half that constituted the Qajar period (1786-1925), writing of history evolved from production of annalistic court chronicles and other traditional genres into the earliest experimentations in modern historiography.