Specifying the concept of Iranian history regarding Jean Chardin's travelogues concerning Iran.

Davoodi, Amin; Mansoorbakht, Ghobad

doi:10.30465/hcs.2024.48743.2932

Specifying the concept of Iranian history regarding Jean Chardin's travelogues concerning Iran.

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Authors

Amin Davoodi ¹

Ghobad Mansoorbakht ²

¹ History PhD student of Shahid Beheshti University

² assistant professor at the faculty of history, Shahid Beheshti University.

10.30465/hcs.2024.48743.2932

Abstract

Explaining the historical concept of Iran through Jean Chardin's travelogue

Abstract

With the arrival of European tourists to Iran, it became possible for them to know Iran more directly. Subsequently, they were presented with a conceptual understanding of the historical existence of Iran. Chardin's arrival and his long stay in Iran led to the articulation of a historical concept of Iran, which explained historical Iran under the dual influence of East and West in Europe and Greco-Roman historiography. This research is based on rational explanation method and shows that Chardin had a different historical-philosophical concept of Iran. While he was much influenced by Occident-Orient duality and the Greco-Roman historiography, his attention and reflection on the then (material) realities of the land of Iran made him different from his European peers, and generally, European historical understanding of Iran

Keywords: Iran, the concept of Iran, Safavid period, Jean Chardin's travelogue, the duality of East and West.

Keywords

Iran

the concept of Iran

Safavid period

Jean Chardin'

s travelogue

the duality of East and West