A SURVEY ON THE U NDERSTANDING OF MODERNITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL CHANGES IN IRAN

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, IHCS

2 MA, Political Sciences ‘AllOmeh TabOtabO’i University

Abstract

Modernity in the political history of Iran can be studied from various viewpoints,
which are: evolution in the way of looking at the concept of modernity and its
relationship with modernism and modernization, the impact of modernity and its
synonyms on the movement of political changes in Iran especially after the
constitutional movement, and the concepts of national and tangential modernity and
the movement arose from them in the history of Iran. With these preparations,
modernity and its historical movement are related more or less to any important
cultural, political and social concepts in Iran society and few aspects in the life of
Iranians which are not impressed by this important subject. Another point in this
regard is that after realization of independence and new identity in Iran in Safavids
under the school of the household of the prophet of Islam, a kind of modernity
formed in Iran society that enjoyed growth and development for long decades which
can be compared somehow with the European Renaissance. This comparison can be
considered as another aspect of the confrontation between tradition and modernity in
Iran.

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