IDENTITY AND MODERNITY IN POLITICAL THOUGHT OF TALEBOF TABRIZI

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In the 19century, the collision between Iranian traditional society and west civilization & modernity was led to question of what must do. Talebof Tabrizi's answer to this question was contingent acceptance of modernity. He accepts important elements of modernity & modern identity: rationalism, rule of law, national sovereignty, crtiticability and partly secularism. But contrary of Akhondzadeh & Aghakhan kermani, he hasn't hostility with religion. He is as a democrat not a liberal, stressed on indigenization of modernity based on: keeping of cultural identity, using of human reason and the update religion for law-making and ethic purification and using of informing dimension of modernity for changing & reformation of traditional identity, consolidation of national identity and full rejection of despotism & exploitation.

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