A Critical Review on the Book “Historical Geography of the Persian Gulf”

Kachuei, Alireza; Qazvini Haeri, Yaser

doi:10.30465/crtls.2024.46366.2765

Document Type : Research

Authors

¹ MA in History, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor of History, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2024.46366.2765

Abstract

The book Historical Geography of the Persian Gulf by Pirooz Mojtahedzade was first published by University of Tehran Press in 1975. In 2013, the author made a new edition with “broad changes and additions” in the same publishing house. In this new edition, while surveying the historical geography of the Persian Gulf from ancient times until the contemporary period, the author has discussed about history and historical geography of the offshore territories of this sea. The current paper aims to have a critical review of the content and the form of this new edition. The outcome of this critical review shows that due to many problems such as the absence of a unique referring method, presenting false، sometimes fake and paradoxical contents, the ambiguity of the main subject, lack of proper sources, vast grammatical and typographic mistakes, incoherence and entanglement of contents, the disproportion of the main title with contents, conspiracy theory, anachronism and finally the lack of bibliography, index, and conclusion, this book is disqualified to be published by such a respected publisher.

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History

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Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

A Critical Review on the Book “Historical Geography of the Persian Gulf”

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Volume 24, Issue 2 - Serial Number 116
September 2024
Pages 51-82

A Critical Review on the Book “Historical Geography of the Persian Gulf”

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Volume 24, Issue 2 - Serial Number 116September 2024Pages 51-82

Volume 24, Issue 2 - Serial Number 116
September 2024
Pages 51-82