Analytical analysis of the ideas of Ayatollah Lari and Sheikh Hadi Najmabadi in the Constitutional Revolution

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

mohammad Bidgoli ¹ , asghar rajabi dehborzoei ²

1 - , Varamin - Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University,tehran,iran
2 - North Tehran Branch,Islamic Azad University,tehran,iran

Received: 2022-06-23 Accepted : 2022-09-14 Published : 2023-11-22

Keywords: constitutional revolution, Sheikh hadi Najmabadi, Ayatollah Lari, Sharia-oriented discourse, religious modernization discourse,

Abstract :

Iran's constitutional revolution was the beginning of a meaningful system and an important intellectual, conceptual, political and social transformation in the contemporary history of Iran, which over time led to transformations and the creation of various discourses. Ayatollah Seyed Abdul Hossein Lari from the Sharia-oriented discourse and Sheikh Hadi Najmabadi from the religious modernism discourse both belong to the constitutionalist discourse. The question of the current research is the analytical analysis of the thoughts of Ayatollah Seyyed Abdul Hossein Lari and Sheikh Hadi Najmabadi about the constitution. The method used in this article is the conflict-centered discursive method of Michel Peshu, and by adopting a historical-analytical approach, it examines the opinions and thoughts of two great Shia clerics in the constitutional revolution. The findings of the article indicate that the confrontation of Ayatollah Seyyed Abdul Hossein Lari and Sheikh Hadi Najmabadi with the requirements of the new world and its issues, although it was done by relying on the element of rationality and using logical and reasonable reasoning, but their perception of this category of constitutionalism was different and of course had different consequences.