Mā Chigūnah, Mā Shudīm? (Rīshah'yābī-yi 'ilal-i 'Aqab'māndigī dar Īrān): Persiska (Farsi) 1397

Whenever a category like backwardness is mentioned - even if it is discussed in intellectual and academic places - the minds immediately turn to the role of the colonists, imperialists and key agents of Russia and England and to prevent the dormant talents in this land from coming to fruition, and the conspiracies of the enemies. This water and soil is considered the main reason for Iran's lack of progress and backwardness. How we became us is one of the few efforts that instead of dealing with the famous (and of course popular) conspiracy theory, without removing the accusation and baptism of colonizers and foreign factors, it searches for the main reason inside this land and among Iran's special historical and geographical factors. And conspiracies of foreign agents are not the cause but the effect of Iran's backwardness. Undoubtedly, the lack of sources that have looked at this issue with such an approach, in addition to the fluency of the text and the avoidance of common clichés, the book that is now in your possession, after fifteen editions, still attracts the attention of researchers and history enthusiasts.