.رؤیاهای ایرانی <> Roye haye Irani (Iranian Dreams)

In a time when Iranian identity is wandering between the two poles of “historical forgetfulness” and “extreme mythmaking,” Mahmoud Falaki attempts to answer one of the most fundamental questions of Iranian culture with a critical and research-based perspective:
How can Iranian identity be reconstructed without turning the past into a sacred and uncriticizable narrative?
“Iranian Dreams” is an attempt to reinterpret the history, religion, and culture of ancient Iran, not from the perspective of sentimental and mythological praise, nor with an approach of negation and denial of the past, but with the belief that no society can achieve modern consciousness and a free future without recognizing its cultural and historical roots.
This book emphasizes the necessity of forming a rational, secular, and self-aware culture in the face of the religion-based culture and mythological mentality that have cast a shadow over an important part of Iranian history and politics for centuries. A culture that can balance “national identity” and “historical criticism.”
By examining Iranian religions, the cult of kingship, national myths, and popular narratives about ancient Iran, the author tries to show that nations are not built only by dreams and legends, but also need the ability to criticize themselves.
From this perspective, an approach to the past, if it means repeating myths, does not open the way to a bright future, but a critical understanding of the past can pave the way for building a new and more humane identity for Iranian society.
“Iranian Dreams” is not a book for easy agreement or hasty opposition, but rather an invitation to rethink the relationship of Iranian identity with history, religion, myth, and modernity.