Contemporary Political Studies

Contemporary Political Studies

Epistemological reflections in Mehdi Malekzadeh's historiography: contemporary historiography methodology

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Authors
golamreza vafaee mehr 1
mahboubeh sharafi 2
1 *PhD Student of History, Islamic Azad University,Yadger –e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch,
2 ** Associate Professor of History, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch
10.30465/cps.2025.48993.3397
Abstract
The following research works on the epistemology conceptions in Mehdi Malekzadeh's historiography and the effect of his historiographical method in the book of Iran's constitutional history. so, the question which arises here is ,what is Mehdi Malekzadeh's epistemological sight on the basics of history and what effect did it have on his historiography? for answering this question, it has been tried to analyze the historian's biography and the content of his work, study the main components of the historian's attitude in knowing history, its usefulness and purposes, the type of impact it has on the history of narrative by the historian. The research results indicate that, Malekzadeh, when faced with the nature of history, considered it as a science feature and tried to adhere to its requirements, as he tried to pay special attention to important components such as explanation, analysis, criticism, as well as objectivity in the narration of historical events. He tried to provide a comprehensive narrative of historical events along with the analysis of issues and approach scientific historiography
Keywords
: historiography
Mehdi Malekzadeh
historical epistemology
science of history
the event of constitutionalism