Vladimir Minorsky's Approach and Narrative of the Iranian History's Evolution

Vladimir Minorsky is one of the most prominent Iran ologists of the twentieth century and his studies cover a wide variety of areas such as geography, history and literature of Iran. The main problem of this paper is to study Vladimir Minorsky’sapproach and narrative regarding evolution of Iranian society and history. Studying and reviewing his studies, we try to answer this main question that in his view what factors contributed to the permanence of Iranian history and its evolution during the passage of history. The present study sheds light on the new and unknown angles of Minorsky’s Iranian studies. What distinguishes Minorsky from other Irani ologists is his initiative to create new theory to explain and understand the Iranian history during the Islamic period. The theory which is discussed in this paper is based on the two concepts of “Iranian Interlude” and “Iranian Islam”.