Reflection of the culture of nations in Jame-al-Towarikh

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Kharami University, Tehran, Iran.

2 PhD in the history of Iran after Islam, Tehran, Iran

10.22126/tbih.2024.10921.1016

Abstract

Iran's historiography has experienced one of the most brilliant periods of its life during the era of the Mughal patriarchs. This tradition of historiography is actually a mirror to show what has happened to the Iranian nation in its life, including politics, religion, language, social spheres and culture. Jami al-Tawarikh, which was written in the Muslim era of the Ilkhans, and the present research is trying to explore the cultural approach of Rashid al-Din in this work, it contains important cultural reports with the influence of the intellectual-cultural conditions of this era. In order to better understand the extent of Rashid al-Din's attention to cultural propositions, the present article with a descriptive-analytical approach and the main question: What effect did the political and social transformations of the Ilkhanate era have on the cultural approach of Rashid al-Din Fazl Hamadani? He tries to study the subject. The result of the research indicates that in Rashid al-Din's historiography, Mongolian culture, culture of different nations and peoples, Iranian culture and science and education are emphasized as the most important cultural components, and Rashid al-Din, in accordance with political and social developments, paid special attention to It has had an intellectual and cultural life.

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