%0 Journal Article %T CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE WEST OF IRAN: THE CASE OF LAK AND LUR TRIBES IN WETERN ZAGROS %J POLITICAL QUARTERLY %I %Z 1735-9678 %A ahmadi, hamid %A Karamshahi, Sabrieh %D 2014 %\ 08/23/2014 %V 44 %N 2 %P 251-270 %! CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE WEST OF IRAN: THE CASE OF LAK AND LUR TRIBES IN WETERN ZAGROS %K Nomadic tribal discourse %K constitutional discourse %K urbanism %K Lak and Lor tribes %K Constitutional Revolution %R 10.22059/jpq.2014.52389 %X The main concern of this article is to explain why the Iranian ConstitutionalRevolution, which with its anti despotic nature attracted many Iranian cities aroundthe country, was not welcomed among the Iranian basically tribal areas of theWestern Zagros Mountain and why the local elites did not supported the newestablished constitutional government. In fact there was not a coherence reaction tothis political event in Iran. The authors focus on Simarah area of western Zagros, orPishkooh and Poshtkooh as the local Lak and Lor tribes and others used to call it.Two concepts of nomadic-tribal discourse and urban-constitutional discourse areused to analyze and thus explain the causes of such lack of support toconstitutionalism. The constitutional discourse was not welcomed, except forspecific cases, by Simarah tribes. This went back to the influence of a politicaldiscourse in which factors such as the love for the king (Shah), across borders living,and centre fugal tendencies played the main role as contrast to the discourse ofconstitutionalism based on the spirit of urbanism, centralization andauthoritarianism. %U https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_52389_1779fec2b12e0751d96f505b4ed2ba29.pdf