Articles
Publication Date: 2023/11/22
تاریخ اسلام (20086431)(2140294)pp. 179-210
One of the institutions established in time of Pahlavi II to achieve the economic development was the Economic Council held on Mondays in front of the Pahlavi King with the presence of the government's economic team. The current article focuses on the "Issue of Iran's Economic Development" and examines the minutes of the Economic Council. This study, based on Rosen Stein Roden's "balanced economic growth theory", has analyzed the issues raised in the meeting minutes in order to find the answer to this question on what effect the Economic Council had on Iran's economic development process. The memories of agents present in the meetings for two decades have also been used as another source. Moreover, the report of evaluations of various departments of the Program and Budget Organization regarding construction plans has been considered and used to confirm the analysis. The findings of the research clarify that due to the lack of coherence and the lack of a general view in the economic decisions, heterogeneity in dealing with different economic sectors and the how of making decisions in this council, its results could not lead to a balanced and sustainable development of Iran.
Publication Date: 2022/12/22
تاریخ نامه ایران بعد از اسلام (2251757X)(33)pp. 57-80
The historiography of the Qajar period, under the influence of the discourse of modernity and its requirements, went through a historical experience. The result of this development was the creation of boundaries between the two historical perspectives of tradition and modern as two distinct paradigms. Based on this discursive development, a double reading of the Safavid issue also took place. In the first narrative of lived experiences, ideological requirements and historical perspectives aligned with the traditional historiographical paradigm, the memory of the Safavids was narrated with a kind of pride, and of course as a source of legitimacy with a proud and epic tone. On the opposite point and from the perspective of critical and modernist historians aligned with the modern discourse, all those previous characteristics and criteria were reversed from a new perspective, the position of the Safavids was reduced to a burdensome, decadent and anti-modern position. Based on these two approaches, the problem of this research is how did the rise and fall of the Safavids occur in these two historiographical perspectives? This question will be answered in an analytical way and based on the content criticism of the narratives of historians of the Qajar period. The hypothesis of this article is that in proportion to the transition from tradition discourse to modernity and the beginning of the gradual dominance of modern discourse in this period, the position of the Safavids also fell from a legitimizing, lofty and proud position to a low position and became an important pillar in the degeneration of the historians of this period. The course was converted.
