نگاهي به جريان تاريخ نويسي عمومي فارسي در نيمه نخست دوره قاجار: معرفي و نقد شمس التواريخ عبدالوهاب چهار محالي

The Stream of Writing General History in The First Half of the Qajar Period;Identification and Criticism of Shams al-Tawarikh by Abd al-Vahab e Chahar Mahali

The stream of writing Persian general history which began in the fourth/tenth century with the translation of Tabariʹs Tarikh al-Rosol va al-Molook, has continued its life and form up to the present decade. However, during all this rather long period, the narrative structure of this stream and the attitude governing it has been under the influence of the historical context and time. The paper attempts to introduce a manuscript of the Persian general history pertaining to the middle years of the Qajar period, review and criticize its text and narrative structure as a part of the writing Persian general history tradition, with regard to the historical developments of the context and time of the textual authorship. The main question that concerns the paper is that to what extent the Shams al-Tawarikh as a general history text written in the middle years of thirteenth/twentieth century can help understanding the stream of writing Persian general history in the aforementioned period.