SUMMARY OF ARTICLES Essays A Tentative Plan for Systematic Iranian Studies

Ideas discussed in this paper include: human sciences are scattered; Iranian studies are scattered; scholars of Iranian studies are poorly informed; Iran must be the center of Iranian studies; the domain of Iranian studies, classification of departments based on factors such as the number of members, the number of duties; foundation for forming the departments; methods of accessing the departments, classification of the duties of the departments; general Iranian studies; specific Iranian studies including economic, archeological, historical (based on national stories and myths), geographical and local geographical Iranian studies; Iranian studies in connection with various western and eastern domains and schools; rural Iranian studies; political Iranian studies; urban Iranian studies; industrial Iranian studies; folklore Iranian studies and studies of Iranian dialects.