Orientalism: the Supreme Stage of Colonialism
The interconnectedness between Western Orientalist historiography and Western political interference in parts of Asia and Africa is absolute. The fallacies diffused as History were all premeditated; they helped promote conceptions, impose political systems, and form various states that would never threaten the economic and political interests of the West in each case.
In fact, the History of Iran as conceived and expressed through the voluminous Cambridge History of Iran, and similar leading publications, represents a very false contextualization of the historical data. Worse, the final outcome was beforehand indexed to the English colonial interests in South and South-Western Asia. In fact, with the same data, one could compose a completely different History of South-Western Asia. This is critically important for the Azeri intellectuals and historians, theoreticians and politicians.
Historical "Iran" is a Fake.
With the same easiness with which colonial historians call the historical developments in the area in question as "History of Iran", a non colonial historian can name them "History of Adhurbadhagan" (or Azerbaijan or Atropatene).
I will limit my references to pre-Islamic times precisely because the presence of Turkic nations and dynasties during the Islamic Ages is accepted as overwhelming.
In fact, the division of the pre-Islamic times into Achaemenid, Macedonian (Alexander and Seleucid), Arsacid Parthian, and Sassanid Iranian eras, after the various dynasties, help establish a very ill-conceived historiography that evolves around persons and not ideas or beliefs. Yet, every person’s participation in, and contribution to, the historical developments hinges on that person’s ideas and beliefs.
However, the prevalence of provinces, capital cities, faiths, and major social – religious – political practices is fully revealed as the seminal reality that shapes the historical developments. This is deduced through a proper study and unbiased research, as it is the ultimate and pertinent reflection of the historical sources.
The Prevalence of Atropatene in Pre-Islamic Times
Trying to draw a suggestive diagram of an alternative historiography of the Pre-Islamic South-Western Asia, we have to take into consideration several key factors.
Azerbaijan – Atropatene – Adhurbadhagan was identified as land of civilization and culture before the political rise of Fars (Persia).
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Azerbaijan’s current political situation is not the beginning point for the elaboration of a National Historiography of Azerbaijan; it is the end, it must be the outcome of the whole process.
More specifically, Azerbaijan, as an independent state does not and should not play any role in the delineation of the historical borders of Azerbaijan as High Place of Culture and Religion in Western Asia.
Even the borderline of the territories currently inhabited by Azeris in South Azerbaijan (in today’s Iran) plays a limited role in defining where the importance of the diachronic center of Azerbaijan lies.
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