THE CUSTOMS AND CULTURE OF THE IRANIAN PEOPLE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF GOBINEAU AND MORIER

Анотація

Travelogue writing was one of the things that seriously accelerated from the time of the Mughal patriarchs through the Europeans and later reached its peak during the Safavid rule in Iran. Two of the travelogues that are very valuable in the field of anthropology and familiarity with the culture of the Iranian people are the travelogues of the French traveler Joseph Arthur Gubino and the other one of the English traveler James Morey. Both of these authors addressed the conditions governing the Iranian society, the social, economic and cultural attitudes of the Iranian people, the negative and positive characteristics of Iranians, etc. It is not without intention to reproduce in the form of exciting stories and travelogues. The magnificent work of Asian stories and the biography of Haji Babai Esfahani are the most important books of these two European travelers, in which one can understand the situation of the Iranian people at the time of their research. In this regard, in this research, by studying the above two works, the description and analysis of their views about Iranians has been discussed.

The image of Iran in the mind and thought of the West has continuously had dual and contradictory aspects throughout history. In some of the travelogues and works written about this land, Iran is characterized by its ancient culture and civilization, and in some of the works of other Western writers, Iranian society takes on hypocritical and self-interested faces