Historical Thinking in Intercultural Perspective: Iranian Narratives on the Mongol Era Anja Pistor-Hatam Fictions of Coherence Historical Thinking Mongol Era Iran Historical Narratives This paper will apply Jörn Rüsen's "intercultural comparison of historical thinking" to modern Iranian historiography on the Mongol period (C13th-14th). In order to appreciate the differences in the historical narratives under examination, Jan Assman's "history of meaning" with its "fictions of coherence" shall be referred to. As the analysis of modern Iranian historiography on the Mongol era demonstrates, it is only under the assumption that these historical narratives are to be understood in the context of a relativistic history of meaning that it is at all possible to accept large parts of their content as plausible. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2014 2014-12-17 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2014-45-20307 eng 2714728-9 3 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/2030/3128 10.17192/meta.2014.3.2030 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2014/45/2030