Birth Certificate as an Iranian Identity Document (1297-1392)

Nowadays the identity documents considered as a group of archival materials and documents represent the collective identity of each Country. The Birth certificates considered as first and foremost documents of Iranian identity in the early twentieth century and are the first documents that carriy the burden of collective identity of Iranians. The documents which recorded the tragic and fascinating events as the day of birth, marriage, names of children, divorce or death of a spouse and the date of the owner's death. Basically, in Classification of documents history, the Birth certificates are the subset of the bureaucrats and the governmental - identity documents of the contemporary.
This research intends to answer these fundamental questions: How did form and evolve the structure and content of identity documents in Iran? What are the identity functions of the Birth certificates and what factors have been impacted on them? This study aims primarily to study the resident's identity of Iran before the modern state and then studying the Birth certificates of the perspective of identity functions and the knowledge of Studying Documents during the past century. The results of this study indicate that the structure and content of Birth certificates during the recent century is the subordinate of dominant discourse of the government that is affected by governmental bureaucracy system, dynamic bureaucracy and dominant cultural spaces.