Tārīkh va adabiyāt-i shafāhī va maḥallī

Prepared as a programmed-instruction textbook for a university library and information science curriculum, this volume introduces students to the theory, methods, and practice of oral history and local history research. Chapters guide readers through the historical development of oral history as a discipline, principles of interview design, techniques for evaluating and archiving oral testimony, and the challenges of documenting community and regional history that rarely appears in official records. The authors situate oral and local history within the broader field of historiography, discussing their value for recovering the experiences of ordinary people and preserving cultural memory. Written in a structured, self-study format with review exercises, the book equips students of history, librarianship, and information science with practical skills for collecting and preserving spoken historical material.