A Criticism on the Book “Recognition of Handicrafts of Iran”

One of the published books in handicraft subject, is the Book “Recognition of Handicrafts of Iran”, which the author introduced it as a textbook for students of Tourism Management, Hotel Service Management and Customs Management courses. This paper reviews and criticizes this book. After introducing the book, first formal criticism and then content criticism has taken place. Research method in this paper is critical-analytical method while shortcomings and mistakes highlighted and it is shown that the work couldn’t be used as a student textbook and it’s not comprehensive as a scientific book. Lack of using scientific and historical resources for expressing the contents, lack of sufficient explanation in specialized titles, lack of appropriate scientific tools and repetitious contents are criticism on this book. Existing bugs have a significant role on the negative impact on the knowledge of the audience and doesn’t deserve to be taught in the university realm. At the end, suggestions are made to fix shortcomings and bugs.