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The Story of the Daughters of Quchan by Afsaneh Najmabadi

The Story of the Daughters of Quchan by Afsaneh Najmabadi

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کتاب حکایت دختران قوچان اثر افسانه نجم آبادی در ابتدا به واقعه فروش دختران قوچان به ترکمانان و ارامنه عشق آباد و به اسارت رفتن زنان باشقانلو در زمان حکمرانی سالار مفخم در بجنورد و حکومت حاج غلامرضا آصفالدوله در خراسان میپردازد. این اتفاق شوم در زمان سلطنت مظفرالدین شاه و پیش از مشروطه و در بهار ۱۳۲۳ هجری قمری برابر با نوامبر ۱۹۰۵ میلادی افتاد.

از این گونه رویدادهای تلخ تاریخی گرچه در گذشته نیز روی داده بود اما یکی از زمینه های ناآرامی را فراهم آورد و با توجه به شرایط سیاسی آن دوره به سرعت تبدیل به تظلم خواهی گردید. اما نکته مهم کتاب آن است که نویسنده در پی یافتن علت کم رنگ شدن این واقعه در سالهای پس از مشروطیت است.

وی به مقایسة فروش دختران قوچان و به چوب بستن سه تاجر قند در تهران پرداخته و معتقد است با پیروزی انقلاب مشروطیت در ایران، زنان مانند همیشه در تاریخ مردنگار به فراموشی سپرده شدهاند و با عنوان از یاد رفته های انقلاب مشروطه از آن واقعه یاد میکند.

 

The book The Story of the Girls of Quchan begins with the tragic incident of the sale of the girls of Quchan to Turkmens and Armenians of Ashgabat, and the captivity of the Bashqenlu women during the rule of Salar Mofakham in Bojnurd and Haj Gholamreza Asaf al-Doleh in Khorasan. This unfortunate event occurred during the reign of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah, before the Constitutional Revolution, in the spring of 1323 AH (corresponding to November 1905 CE).

Although similar painful historical events had happened before, this one became a catalyst for unrest and, given the political climate of the time, quickly turned into a national outcry for justice. However, the key point of the book is that the author seeks to uncover the reasons why this event faded into obscurity in the years following the Constitutional Revolution.

The author compares the sale of the girls of Quchan with the public flogging of three sugar merchants in Tehran, arguing that with the victory of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran, women—once again, as throughout male-written history—were forgotten. She refers to them as the forgotten women of the Constitutional Revolution.

The author laments the neglect of women in historical narratives. She argues that at the outset of the Constitutional Revolution, writers such as Kasravi and Taqizadeh mentioned the story of the girls of Quchan as one of the symbols of tyranny and as a cause that led to the Constitutional Movement. However, in later writings and in the works of historians such as Dr. Mehdi Malekzadeh and Fereydoun Adamiyat, there is little or no trace of this event.

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