Enayatollah Reza ( fa, عنایت‌الله رضا; June 18, 1920 in

Rasht Rasht ( fa, رشت, Rašt ; glk, Rəšt, script=Latn; also romanized as Resht and Rast, and often spelt ''Recht'' in French and older German manuscripts) is the capital city of Gilan Province, Iran. Also known as the "City of Rain" (, ''Ŝahre B ...

– July 20, 2010 in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

) was an Iranian historian and professor of philosophy, a former member of the Iranian

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

, and a former Iranian military officer. He was a member of the Supreme Academic Council of the Centre for Iranian and Islamic Studies in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, the publishers of the ''

Encyclopaedia Islamica The ''Encyclopaedia Islamica'' is an encyclopedia on Islamic and Iranian studies published by Brill, comprising a projected 16-volume translation of selected articles from the new Persian ''Dā'erat-ol-Ma'āref-e Bozorg-e Eslāmi'' ( fa, دائ� ...

''. His research concerned the historical regions of

Iranian Azerbaijan Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan ( fa, آذربایجان, ''Āzarbāijān'' ; az-Arab, آذربایجان, ''Āzerbāyjān'' ), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, is a historical region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq, Turkey, the Nakhchivan ...

and Caucasian Arran; based on this research, he claimed that "Azerbaijan" should properly refer only to the land south of the

Aras River , az, Araz, fa, ارس, tr, Aras The Aras (also known as the Araks, Arax, Araxes, or Araz) is a river in the Caucasus. It rises in eastern Turkey and flows along the borders between Turkey and Armenia, between Turkey and the Nakhchivan excl ...

(in Iran) and that the country of Azerbaijan should instead be called "Aran"."Arran, the real name of Adjerbadjan"
Interview with Reza, Iran Chamber Society. Retrieved 2010-02-28.

Works

* ''The Sasanian Civilization'' (alternatively titled ''Civilization of Sassanid Iran'', translation of book by Vladimir Grigorevich Lukonin) * ''Azerbaijan va Arran (Albania-e Qafqaz)'' (in English: ''Azerbaijan and Aran (Albania of Caucasus)'')
From Aran to Azerbaijan
''Goftogu Quarterly'' 33, Spring 2002.

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People from Gilan Province 20th-century Iranian historians 1920 births 2010 deaths People from Rasht Tudeh Military Network members Azerbaijani Democratic Party politicians Imperial Iranian Air Force personnel Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients {{Iran-historian-stub

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