power adjustment in the political praxis of the elite in pre-constitutionalism

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

seyed hamed akbari yasuj ¹ , Aliakbar Gorji azandaryani ²

1 - Ph.D . Candidate of public Law , islamic azad university of Tehran north branch
2 - Associate Professor , Department of public law , shahid beheshti university

Received: 2017-12-10 Accepted : 2018-11-13 Published : 2018-09-21

Keywords: power adjustment, political praxis, abbas mirza, ghaem magham, amirkabir,

Abstract :

Challenges of the old political system against the new discipline on the eve of the 19 th century and the resulted crises made the Iranian political elites and intellectuals take note of the necessity of reflection on this issue and the means to withdraw from status quo. plenty of ways and means were suggested in the world of thought and in the practical field, too, to get out of this situation. In the meantime, the desire to adjust power was one of the major solutions provided by the elite to make the old discipline effective and prepare it to face the modern discipline. The Qajar elite performed enormous major reformatory efforts in the pre_constitutional period to adjust the ruling political power. Abas Mirza was the pioneer of these efforts and Qa'em maqam Farahani was regarded as the agent to stabilize them. In the meantime, Mirza taqi Khan Farahani Amir kabir was the main and eminent representative of the ideal of power adjustment.