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has provided examples of Adamiyat's 'hostile attitude towards both Bahaʾis and Jews', a result of his 'virulent nationalism leads him to associate all religious minorities other than Zoroastrians with foreign powers'. Chehabi has demonstrated several cases in which Adamiyat intentionally misquoted
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noted that he 'is not free from some of the biases and misinterpretations of which he accuses others' and that his dichotomous portrayal of protagonists and antagonists 'give his work a Manichean flavour appealing to readers in search of easy answers to complex historical problems'. Amanat also
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and misrepresented his primary sources in order 'to fit his own conspiracy belief'. Furthermore, Adamiyat rejected the work of his scholarly colleagues due to racist opinions; he 'dismisses as worthless the writings of a number of Jewish scholars', among them the noted scholar
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Moreover, in spite of his unacknowledged use of Western studies Adamiyat dismisses them all as ‘Western rubbish’ (
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Several other leading Iranists have criticised both Adamiyat's methods and his biases.
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The Study of history in post-revolutionary Iran: Nostalgia, or historical awareness?
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Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, by the Gale Group, Inc.
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rejected Adamiyat's clear bias against both the West and Iranian minorities:
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Historiography and Political Culture in Twentieth Century Iran – abstracts
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About Fereydun Adamiyat on the Islamic Republic News Agency website, 2014
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About Fereydun Adamiyat on the Iranian Students News Agency website, 2014
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Prior to his academic activity, Adamiyat was also a diplomat, serving as
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Iran in the Twentieth Century: Historiography and political culture
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Tehran
Persia
Tehran
Iran
Behesht-e Zahra
Dar ul-Funun
University of Tehran
Abbas-Gholi Adamiyat
Tehran
Persian
social historian
Iran
Qajar
Abbasquli Adamiyat
Iranian Constitutional Revolution
University of Tehran
London School of Economics
Persia
Rational Movement
Persian
normative
objectivity
Amir Kabir
Persian
Iran
Netherlands
India
Abbas Amanat
Houchang Chehabi

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