Patricia Cron, Innovative Researcher محادثة ومقابلة

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Despite the fact that her skeptical approach and that of a number of other researchers like her have been criticized by detractors, it cannot be denied that Patricia Crone's questions, her analytical attitude, and her comparative studies, and at the same time her skepticism regarding the authenticity of "non-independent" texts and instead her reliance on non-Islamic sources contemporary with the historical events of the early Islamic period, still hold importance; just as her effort to achieve an independent understanding and, in fact, the effort to reconstruct the understanding of texts, has in practice made her method and that of one or two of her colleagues a completely different and prominent method in Western Islamic studies in recent decades. The reason for the difference between what we, for example, have produced in Iran in this field and what Crone has presented in this book is that she has placed her theorizing in this book, as far as she could, based on the recognition of sources; and among them, what she has written regarding the contribution of Iranian thought to the system of Islamic political thought relies on primary sources and is the cognitive product that she possesses directly or indirectly (based on Iranological research and studies belonging to the pre-Islamic era), as well as from the transformations of the first two centuries, especially the late Umayyad era and the beginning of the Abbasid era; just as she correctly recognizes the currents, sects, (Refer to page image) and various religious, sectarian, and intellectual tendencies influenced by pre-Islamic Iranian religions and sects, as well as Sassanid era literature and literature translated into Arabic.