The First attempt and challenges of Iranian merchants Commercial in the Process of Establishing a Lawful System of Governance and the Modern State in constitutional Period
Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research
1 - استادیار گروه تاریخ
دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد نجف آباد
Keywords: merchants, Modern State, Constitutionalism, Seeking Laws, The constitution,
Abstract :
Before the advent of constitutionalism , social and economic insecurity , legal instability, abrogation of verdicts passed by Mujtahids, lack of any established laws, possibility of confiscation of wealth, and an intrusion of foreign capital into the country provided discontent for the Iranian merchants’. By this time, the merchants had gained a thorough familiarity with the West through the advocation of theoretical basis of the Western thought by the intellectuals and the newspapers. The merchants participated in the constitutional revolution and took part in the first Majlis in which they tried to pass laws to ensure liberty for all citizens, public participation in the political affairs of the country and government transparency. In this paper it has been tried to examine the Role of merchants in these development based on the available documents.
