خلاصه ماشینی:
"After finishing my 2-year military service as an Armorial Second Lieutenant Officer, I studied History and Persian Language & Literature at graduate level at Tabatabaee and Tehran Universities respectively.
There are differences among "history" as the past life of human beings, "history" as texts written by historians (primary sources), "history" as outcomes of scholars’ research, and "history" as an academic, not scientific, discipline that has been and is taught at educational institutions with specific educational aims.
Threshold: Another important concern over history is, "how subjective is it?" I mean how much can we rely on what historians have written throughout years, trying to depict the factual events of their times?
Dr. Hassani: History, when historians think of and talk about it as the life lived, seems to be subjective, but as texts written by historians, is an objective reality.
History, in its first meaning, despite its subjectivity from our point of view, is trustworthy and reliable, because it exists and lives shoulder to shoulder with human beings and affects every aspect of their life permanently, even though one is or is not aware of its existence.
Every different version of a text, by itself, is an independent historical event which indicates the existence of a reality in the society which it belongs to.
Threshold: Another point where history and literature go hand in hand is what is commonly called "historical novels".
Dr. Hassani: Novels, as a literary genre, are production of human societies and have their own specific social and historical contexts which give birth to them."