Iranian Studies

Imagology of Iranian Culture in the travelogue Beyond the Caspian Sea

Esmaeil Alipoor

Volume 15, Issue 2 , September 2025, , Pages 51-70

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2024.370131.1251

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European travelogues about Iran are invaluable sources for Iranian Studies, offering insights into aspects of Iranian culture often overlooked or ignored by Iranian historians. However, ... Read More

Imagology of Qājār era Iranian Culture in travelogue Droville

omid vahdanifar; esmaeil alipoor

Volume 11, Issue 2 , February 2022, , Pages 49-71

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2021.329218.1022

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The purpose of this article is to examine Iranian Culture in the travelogue Droville, a military adviser to FatAli Shāh. In the present study, the first reports of the French author ... Read More The purpose of this article is to examine Iranian Culture in the travelogue Droville, a military adviser to FatAli Shāh. In the present study, the first reports of the French author are classified into three levels: "Positive Paradigms", "Negative Paradigms" and "Neutral Paradigms". Then below each class, has been analyzed the images presented on the basis of the components of homogeneity, contradiction, generalization, holism and magnification, which are the characteristics of the "imagology approach". Imagology, which is one of the approaches of comparative literature, has an interdisciplinary nature and is therefore linked to cultural studies. The application of this approach in reading travelogues is important in that it can be viewed in terms of "native" culture from the perspective of "other". So there are two main questions in this article: what aspects of Iranian Culture in the Qājār era have been the focus of a French military adviser? How are these cultural images reflected in the above travelogue? This study has been done with a descriptive-analytical method based on imagology approach in comparative literature. The findings of the study indicate that cultural elements were not reflected in the original form in this travelogue. In fact, these images are the transformed form of the author's early data, which has gone through the channel of different ideologies. The cultural imagology of Drouville is sometimes influenced by Western-European ideas and Intertextual relations and often derived from the class cultural geography of the Qājār era society that he interacted with them.Keywords: Imagology, Travelogue, Droville, Iranian Culture, Qājār eraImagology of Qājār era Iranian Culture in travelogue DrovilleThe purpose of this article is to examine Iranian Culture in the travelogue Droville, a military adviser to Fath-Ali Shāh. In the present study, the first reports of the French author are classified into three levels: "Positive Paradigms", "Negative Paradigms" and "Neutral Paradigms". Then below each class, has been analyzed the images presented on the basis of the components of homogeneity, contradiction, generalization, holism and magnification, which are the characteristics of the "imagology approach".

Functions of Iranian Garden

Behrouz Afkhami; Zeynab Khosravi

Volume 8, Issue 2 , February 2019, , Pages 21-38

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2019.71431

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The Persian garden is one of the most prominent cultural phenomena of Iran. According to the historical documents and archeological evidence, the first Persian gardens were constructed ... Read More

Iran in Al-avāʼel of Abū-Helāl ʻAskari

Somayeh-sadat Tabtabei; Alireza Hosseini

Volume 7, Issue 1 , June 2017, , Pages 89-105

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2017.65711

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Abū-Helāl ʻAskari, is a scholar with Iranian root, who was born in the fourth century A.H. in Xūzestān. He, like many other Iranian authors of his age, chose to write his works ... Read More

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Keywords = Iranian Culture

Imagology of Iranian Culture in the travelogue Beyond the Caspian Sea

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Imagology of Qājār era Iranian Culture in travelogue Droville

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Functions of Iranian Garden

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Iran in Al-avāʼel of Abū-Helāl ʻAskari

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