Azeri Prevalence over the Persians
Azerbaijan, South Azerbaijan, Iran, Persia, Turkey, Orientalism and Freemasonic Historiography
By Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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Azerbaijan, South Azerbaijan, Iran, Persia, Turkey, Orientalism and Freemasonic Historiography
By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
منتشر شده در شنبه, 19 مهر 1393 00:45
Takht-e Suleyman
Following an introductory series on South Azerbaijan, and an earlier article ("South Azerbaijan: 12 Oppressed Nations Defy the Persian Theocratic Chauvinism of the Ayatollahs" - http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/95965), I intend to expand further on the main impediment to the establishment of a definite Azeri national identity supported by the respective historiography that would delineate the diachronic trends of the Azeri History, the pillars on which it is based and the axes around which it evolves.
To study the texts published by the leading Azeri intellectuals (I hereby specify that I use the terms Azeri and Azerbaijani as fully equivalent and as originating from the earlier Adhurbadhagan or Adharbadhagan), one realizes that they fail to evidently draw a line fully and convincingly separating Azerbaijan from Iran.
This unfortunate event further affects Azerbaijan’s struggle for political reunification and national consolidation. At this point, I want to specify that, contrarily to the other oppressed nations of Iran, namely the Laris, the Arabic speaking Aramaeans, the Soranis, the Hewramis and the Goranis (fallaciously regrouped as "Kurds"), the Qashqais, the Luris, the Bakhtiaris, the Lakis, the Baluchis, the Gilakis, the Mazandaranis, and the Turkmen, the Azeris are the only to possibly counterbalance the Persians in terms of either sizeable territory and numerous population or diachronic presence and historical continuity.
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The latter is very critical because it is on this element whereby modern historiography is based, and this helps create consolidated nations with historical – cultural integrity and well perceived identity.
In other words, the Azeris (both those living free in Azerbaijan and those suffering in Iran) are the only among the aforementioned tyrannized nations of Iran who can be empowered in their nation building effort by the institutionalization of an Azeri National History that opposes and eclipses that of the Persians.
Azeri Prevalence over the Persians
The pledge to Azeri prevalence over the Persians throughout the plateau in the east of Zagros mountains has to become the foundation of the South Azeris’ struggle for independence and national – cultural self-determination.
To some extent, the modern Azeri historians and intellectuals have been the victims of historical developments, political interests, and ideological approaches indexed on political needs of totalitarian regimes. By this I mean first, the division of Azerbaijan between the Iranian and the Russian empires before almost 200 years (following the wars between Qajar Iran and Russia, and the subsequent Turkemenchai settlement of 1828), second, the persecution of the Azeris in both empires, and third, the rise of the Soviet regime in Russia and the territories of Azerbaijan that were occupied by the Bolshevik army.
National historiography cannot be based on the needs of political conjecture; one has therefore to delve into the historical past, and at the same time proceed with a full examination and re-assessment of the existing historiography.
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