Critique of the Book “National Identity in the Public Tales of the Safavid Period” by Mohammad Hanif

The present article reviews the book “National Identity in the Folk Tales of the Safavid Period” by Mohammad Hanif. In the introduction to this 317-page book, the author claims that the main purpose of research is to find different aspects of Iranian national identity in Safavid folk tales and then claims that after examining the issue of identity, the author will try to study the texts.  Answer questions about identity. Mohammad Hanif has well understood the issue of the importance of identity in the Safavid era and its connection with the stories of this period and tries to represent this issue in the book National Identity in the folk tales of the Safavid period. But there are fundamental flaws in his work, four of the most important of which will be mentioned in the aricle.