Khaberni - The director general of the Jordanian Hashemite Royal Documentation Center, Mohannad Mubaideen, stated that the state pays great attention to the directives of the Crown Prince, Prince Hussein bin Abdullah II, on writing the Jordanian narrative, which is part of the state’s efforts to document the national narrative and formulate the state's history scientifically.
Mubaideen explained on Khaberni, that the narrative is closely linked to the science of history, and it has its own roots and rules. He pointed out that historians view that this science developed under the large umbrella of criticism and verification, hence there became the support and the text in written history.
He added that the term "narrative" is closer to a cultural character, associated with mechanisms and structures of cultural genres and stories. Therefore, historians prefer not to use it, and they tend to use the term "narrative," although the state focused on the narrative based on the directives of the Crown Prince to make it a part of the national historical and cultural scene.
Mubaideen discussed the history of the Jordanian state, asserting that the greatest accomplishment of the Jordanians in their major narrative during the twentieth century was the establishment of the state since September 1920, when Jordanians expressed their desire for a state with an Arab character. Then, Prince Abdullah came to Ma'an at the request of the Arabs, and managed this geographical location with the simplest of means and the scarcest of resources, to build a state that was able to survive storms and cyclones under Hashemite leadership.
He pointed out that this history is widely documented through universities, historians, committees, and institutions; and the Jordanian historical school was distinguished by not being dragged into the ideological polarization that other Arab countries witnessed, appreciating the Hashemite efforts in documentation projects like the Hashemite documents, the Jordan History Committee, and the Royal Documentation Center, in addition to the contributions of Jordanian historians in maintaining objectivity and rigor in historical narration.
