The Daily Memoirs of Prince Hossein Qoli Mirza Salour (Emadolsaltaneh)

Today I read the fourth book of Thucydides. It is very eloquently and well written, as it only details one war, and that too unfinished. Therefore, I say it is not very captivating, but otherwise he is a credible historian. His exaggerations are much less than Xenophon. I very much wish that two or three people would join me in writing a history that refutes the claims of Herodotus, Xenophon, and other Greek historians, exposing all their falsehoods about the people of Iran. These Qarmatians unjustly criticize and write ill of the Iranians to an unbearable extent, while their claims are not all true and can be refuted. At the end of my translation of the ‘Return of the Ten Thousand Greeks’ from the works of Xenophon, I have written three chapters refuting their claims. On Thursday, 9th Dhu al-Qi’dah 1310 – Yilan Il *** Memoir writing is a way to keep a person’s memories and experiences alive and in its modern sense emerged from the mid-Qajar period due to Iranians’ encounters with the West and familiarity with Europeans and was especially used by courtiers. Emadolsaltaneh, the nephew of Naser al-Din Shah, following his father, devoted himself from adolescence to writing his daily memoirs. The result of this interest and effort during Emadolsaltaneh’s lifetime was 45 handwritten notebooks.