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From Saadi to Fazlullah Hamedani; A Reflection on the Rereading of the Abbasid Civilizational Memory in the Historiography of the Mongol Period
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Samaneh Fazelpour Tafti1   , Seyyed Ehsan Sadeqian Dehkurdi2  |
1- MA in History of Islamic Iran, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran.
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran (Corresponding auther). , se.sadeghian@iau.ac.ir |
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Abstract: (695 Views) |
In the historiography and literary heritage of Iran during the Mongol Ilkhanate period, a remarkable narrative of the Abbasid cultural and civilizational heritage can be observed, which, in a way, seeks to recover the memory of the Abbasids after the fall of Baghdad and the institution of the Caliphate. In this study, relying on four literary and historical sources owned by Iranian writers, all of which were written after the fall of Baghdad and during the Ilkhanate period, an attempt is made to analyze the nature of this sympathetic reinterpretation and narrative of the Abbasid civilization. Saadi's ode in the lamentation of King Musta'sim, the writings and letters of Khwajah Rashid al-Din Fazlullah Hamedani, Tajareb Asalaf Hindushah Nakhchivani, and the selected history of Hamdollah Mostofi are four sources in which the civilizational legacy of the Abbasids is viewed with a proud and sometimes nostalgic view. Since this narrative is considered an Iranian narrative of the glory of the Abbasids, it is of importance in its own right. Accordingly, an attempt is made to propose, based on a critical analysis of the content of these four literary and historical works, the hypothesis that these sources played an important role in perpetuating the memory of the Abbasids in the cultural discourse of Iran during the Ilkhanid period. |
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| Keywords: Abbasids, Fazlullah Hamedani, Saadi, Tajareb Asalaf, Tarikh gozedeh, historiography, Ilkhanate. |
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Received: 2024/04/24 | Accepted: 2024/10/20 | Published: 2025/09/20
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