Confrontation between the Discourses of Dominant and Ineffective Identities of Iranian and Mongolian Women in Tarikh-e Jahangosha

In addition to the historical and social significance of Tarikh-e Jahangosha by Joveyni, the text is notable according to discourse analysis. In the discourse of war as the hegemonic discourse of the text, one of the distinctive discourses should be studied according to social presence of women. On the one hand, gender equality in Mongolian culture, and from the other hand the Iranian-Islamic identity of Iranian women have created a bipolar discourse which in Iranian women are ineffective slaves, while Mongolian women, as champions equal to men, are dominant and victorious.
Using Halliday’s ideational metafunction, naming and processes, all parts of the text where Iranian and Mongolian women attended were studied; then by collecting all statements about them, characteristics of each were extracted.
Under the effect of religious beliefs, Iranian-Islamic identity of women is represented in the form of defeated participants of discourse of war, by introducing their social characteristics, indirectly expressing their names and their low-frequency presence. While the identity of Mongol women, as the dominant and triumphant participants, is expressed directly and a special way of naming is used by the author. In many cases, the Mongolian woman is wise, hero and politician; whereas the Iranian, except in few cases, is a nameless veiled who goes into captivity.