The Necessity of Understanding the Political History of Constitutional Era (The Differences between the Analysis Level of the Holy Shrines’ Treatises and Press and that of the Modern Historiography under the Pahlavi)

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Constituional Era is one of the important periods in the Iranian political and intellectual history. Furthermore, it seems that this time contaias noteworthy issues and subjects for respurch in Iraq and even during the Ottoman Empire, in the light of shiite authorities’ religious and political leadership.
Pondering the documents, records, treatises, and the press during the first and second constitutional are, i.e. the first decade of the constitutional, however, shows serious difference between the analysis level, distresses, and the priorities mentioned in these firsthand documents and those written and told later in the name of the constitutional and in the process of sketching this period.
By reviewing parts of these works and by comparing these works with some of the modern historiographies done during the constitutional, this article tries to mention some of these distortions. Revealing these dishonesties can show us somehow the principles needed in understanding the different aspects of the political history of Iran. It seems that the more time passed from the constitutional and on the other hand the more profound issues posed in the contemporary Islamic revolution, we can understand better the political history of Iran by comparing these two processes intellectually.

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Contemporary Political Studies
Volume 3, Issue 6 - Serial Number 6
April 2013
Pages 145-165

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