Sociological Analysis of Shahrashoob as a Local Poetry History in the Timurid Era

Abstract

Local historiography has not been considered as a form of historiography in Iran, especially during the Timurid period. Meanwhile, one of the types of local historiography is the poetic historiography, and a kind of poetic history spread during the Timurid period is Shahrashoob. In fact, the townships provide plenty of information about the social and cultural history as well as the characteristics of cities, guilds, etc. in the form of local history. Also, the poetic historiography provides a lot of information about the reconstruction of some of the historical events of his time and in terms of showing evidence of the revival of the Iranian soul and the Persian language. Therefore, the main purpose of the present paper is to provide a sociological analysis of Shahrashoob as a local episode in Timurid times and examine the social and cultural conditions of this age.

Keywords

• local historiography
• shahrashoob
• urban sociology
• timurid era