The Historian’s Activism in the Narration of Historical EventsThe Critical Insight of Nazim Al-Islam Kermani and Mehdi Malekzadeh in the Historiography of the Constitutional Event

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

golamreza vafaee mehr ¹ , محبوبه sh ² , aliakbar khedrizadeh ³

1 - *PhD Student of History, Islamic Azad University,Yadger –e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Tehran Iran , [e-mail]
2 - دانشیار، گروه تاریخ، واحد شهر ری، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، شهر ری، ایران(نویسنده مسئول) [e-mail]
3 - استادیار گروه تاریخ دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد یادگار امام خمینی (ره) شهرری

Received: 2023-10-30 Accepted : 2024-04-16 Published : 2024-04-16

Keywords: critical insight, historiography, constitutionalism, Mehdi Malekzadeh, Nazim-ul-Islam Kermani.,

Abstract :

The dated critical insight is one of the main elements of historiography and historian which is very clear in modern Iranian historiographyAlthough there has been more or less in the historiography of ancient historians, but. The present article seeks to assess the historiography of Nazem-Al-Islam Kermani and Mehdi Malekzadeh in the constitutional event with the aforementioned insight that is using the historical method. to understand the aim of study, we should answer the following question : What effect did the critical insight of the aforementioned historians have on their historical method in reflecting the constitutional event and the later developments ? The results of this research show that the above-mentioned historians are trying to move themselves far from one-sided historiography in two extends, first: criticism of the Qajar governors and rulers due to their inefficiency in the administration of the country and second: the mass of the people as the driving engine of the changes in the society. Analyze and explain the factors of the emergence of the constitution and the developments after it.