Indigenous Knowledge
Hosein Raie
Abstract
Throughout history, Iranians' livelihoods were contingent on agriculture and farming, and affluent landowners and lords were regarded as noble and high social strata. Existing historical and archaeological records and documents demonstrate agricultural heritage sites in Iran's cultural area. Some are ...
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Throughout history, Iranians' livelihoods were contingent on agriculture and farming, and affluent landowners and lords were regarded as noble and high social strata. Existing historical and archaeological records and documents demonstrate agricultural heritage sites in Iran's cultural area. Some are related to farmsteads, which developed from the early Islamic ages to the twentieth century and were utilized for centuries as a means of subsistence and commerce. They had four ownership system types: endowment, lordship, court and regality, and in the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, part of them came under lordship ownership. This ownership type has resulted in physical and functional changes in historical farmsteads due to political, social, and economic changes in Iran during the 19th and 20th centuries, challenging their identity and authenticity.The moot point of the research is the need for a deeper understanding of the relationship between lordly ownership and the life of Iranian farmsteads during the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, and this article aims to introduce the influential elements using the interpretive approach and historical interpretive strategy. To this end, the Qazibala farmstead in Qom will be used as a healthy and comprehensive case study of an Iranian farmstead.
Hosein Raie
Abstract
The geography of Iran is a haven of historical farmsteads with specific physical and functional characteristics. These small bio-complexes have a fixed population and physical structures related to agriculture and settlement, and they grew and developed in the centre of Iran from before Islam to the ...
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The geography of Iran is a haven of historical farmsteads with specific physical and functional characteristics. These small bio-complexes have a fixed population and physical structures related to agriculture and settlement, and they grew and developed in the centre of Iran from before Islam to the Zand and Qajar periods and then reached a low point in the Pahlavi period. The moot point of the research is the need to know more about the nature of historical residential farmsteads. Many farmsteads, including buildings related to them, are subject to destruction. The purpose of the research is to obtain more information about the locality of farmsteads in the geographical arrangement of Iran, and to this end, the interpretive approach and historical interpretive strategy are used in the form of document research and field studies. According to the study findings, residential farmsteads, as the infinitesimal living complexes, were a subcategory of villages, acting independently or subordinately, and were considered a part of Iran's geographical system. Physical, agricultural and customary areas are their three significant influencers. The physical and agricultural zone is compared to the farmstead's core zone, while the customary area is equivalent to its buffer zone.
