Iran Local Histories
abdolah safarzaie; azim shahbakhsh
Abstract
In ancient times, a large area southeast of the Iranian plateau was called Makran. The first available accounts of Makran, known as Mecca, date back to the Achaemenid period. In the surviving documents from the Sassanid period, this area is mentioned as Makuran. In the Islamic period, Makran has been ...
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In ancient times, a large area southeast of the Iranian plateau was called Makran. The first available accounts of Makran, known as Mecca, date back to the Achaemenid period. In the surviving documents from the Sassanid period, this area is mentioned as Makuran. In the Islamic period, Makran has been mentioned in various historical, geographical, and other sources. Although there are few reports left about the geographical, economic, and cultural situation of Makran throughout history, there is a clear difference in the existing reports. By carefully evaluating the existing reports on Makran, it is inferred that these reports can be divided into formal and informal reports. Official reports refer to the reports of military conquerors and government agents who reported on the situation in the region for specific purposes, and their reports were recorded in written historical and geographical sources. Informal reports refer to the reports of other geographers, historians, travel writers, and so on. The purpose of this article is to analyze the existing official reports related to the geographical, economic, and cultural situation of Makran in the past centuries. The present article is written using library resources in a comparative way with a description and analysis of data..
