Spektrum Iran

Abstrakt Mount Damāvand, as a national symbol of Iran, has a profound historical background in the Persians’ beliefs, and their archeological, geographical, and historical findings and texts. In fact, this national symbol has not been a merely geographical feature and it raised the greatest myths on its skirts. Several studies have been conducted on the name, mythology, history, geology, and geography of Damāvand, but the location of the mountain in the historical maps and geographical texts has not been studied thoroughly. The present paper tries to locate Damāvand with the help of historical and descriptive research methods. The study shows the Persians and Muslims have correctly located Damāvand in their historical maps and geographical texts as the highest mountain of Iran and mentioned its associated mythical and respectable beliefs. Although they have gone astray in a few cases, the considerable magnitude of Damāvand and its distinction from the Damāvand region has repeatedly been recognized in their works.

Abstrakt From 1915 to 1930, a number of Iranian intellectuals who lived in Berlin, published several journals, and put forward ideas and subjects which are important in contemporary Iranian studies (language, religion, and Iranian culture). Seyyed Hassan Taghizadeh, Mirza Mohammad Khan Qazvini, Hossein Kazemzadeh Iranshahr and Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh are among prominent Iranians who published Kaveh and Iranshahr journals in the Kaviani Printing House. Another magazine, which belonged to the second generation of the Iranians living in Berlin, was Nāme-ye Farangestān. These three journals are studied in the present paper, as well as ʻElm wa Honar, which was founded by Abol-qasem Wosuq. The aim of this study is to take a glance at these four magazines, regarding Iranian culture, history, linguistics and religion.