خلاصة:
The writing of Iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. Portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the Iranian throught world. To have a truly Iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical principles which are deeply rooted in the Iranian Islamic culture. Although pre-modern Iranian historians never wrote a history of architecture, they were exponents of historiography during a millennium of cultural flourishing and vigor. Since any sort of historiography, as well as literature, usually is based on principles and ideological views about history and time, Persian historic texts can be considered as worthy sources regarding theoretical bases on which we can build the Iranian philosophy of architectural history. Persian prose of the early centuries of Islam is among these sources. One of the common, prominent themes in these texts is the nature of time or history. It is presented as a sensible, living being whose states relate to human events and phenomena across time. A new theory of periodization of Iranian architectural history can be drawn based upon this theory.
ملخص الجهاز:
The Theory of "Living Time " in Periodization of Iranian Architectural History Mehrdad Qayyoomi Bidhendi Assistant Professor, Department of Architectural History and Conservation, School of Architecture and Urban Development, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Received 10.
Although pre-modern Iranian historians never wrote a history of architecture, they were exponents of historiography during a millennium of cultural flourishing and vigor.
Since any sort of historiography, as well as literature, usually is based on principles and ideological views about history and time, Persian historic texts can be considered as worthy sources regarding theoretical bases on which we can build the Iranian philosophy of architectural history.
The theoretical principles of historiography can be derived by investigating their works, and can be tested to verify whether they apply to Iranian architectural history as well.
The objective of this paper is to investigate from texts written in the early centuries of Islam a theme that could be regarded as a theoretical basis for one of the most important questions of historiography, the general evolutionary process of history and the pattern of this evolution for classification and periodization means.
History is a sensible, living being governed by certain laws and functioning under the Divine will, or the Divine decree and ordinance (qadhâ’) which, at times, is revealed to, or concealed from human eyes.
" (Etessami , 2006, 38) The notion of Time as a living being has permeated all throughout our history, and it may well be rooted in the holy hadith which says, "Do not offend the zamâna with words, as God is the zamâna".