Document Type : Scientific-Research

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Professor, Department of History, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Thinking about the nature and quality of the periods that mankind has spent or is currently spending has been one of the concerns of philosophers, thinkers, historians and theologians. Therefore, the history of the world is periodized from different perspectives. Iran's history is no exception to this rule. One of Iran's most famous and current historical periods is dividing it into ancient, middle, and contemporary epochs. The hidden point in the chronology of Iran's history is the lack of attention to the new epoch. Based on this, the question is whether Iran lacks a new epoch and has completely moved from the middle epoch to the contemporary epoch? If not, when is the origin of Iran's new epoch and when did it start and when does it end? After evaluating the available data and criticizing the most important ideas about the new epoch of Iran's history, this article has come to the conclusion that in the periodization of Iran's history, most of the controversies have been formed over determining the origin of Iran's contemporary history. And determining the origin of Iran's new epoch remains in a halo of ambiguity. The author argues that in order to resolve many existing disputes, we need to define a new epoch. He considered the Golestan treaty at the end of the first period of the Iran-Russia wars as the beginning of the new epoch of Iran and believes that this period continued until the constitutional revolution and the constitutional revolution is the beginning of the contemporary epoch of Iran.

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