![]() ![]() He employed a number of people as spies, among them Mirza Hosayn ’Ali, the future founder of the Baha’i religion. He subsequently converted to Islam, studied under a certain Hakim Ahmad Gilani and donned the clerics’ garments. ![]() 2 According to these Confessions, in the 1830s, Dolgoruki, who had been commissioned as translator to the Russian embassy, came to Iran with a secret mission. ![]() 1867), the Russian minister in Iran from 1845 to 1854. The Confessions of Dolgoruki was a narrative that appeared in 1930s Iran, purporting to be the memoirs or political confessions of Dimitriy Ivanovich Dolgorukov (d. ![]() 1 White would perhaps be intrigued to learn that a work of fiction, masquerading as historiography, in time created a long-lasting master narrative. In his discussion of the “tenuous” relationship between historiography and literature, Hayden White mentions that, while historiography arises against a background of “literary” discourse, it shares with it the “systems of meaning-production (the modes of emplotment).” It is by virtue of its subject matter (“real” rather than “imaginary” events) that historiography differentiates itself from literature. ![]()
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