Kasravi's views on nationalism during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

kazem  hosseinifar ¹ (Department of History, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran)
Masomeh  garadagi ² (Department of History, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran)
ali  salarishadi ³ (Department of History, Urmia State University, Urmia, Iran)
manizheh  Sadri ⁴ (Department of History, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran)

Received: 2021-04-30 Accepted : 2021-05-24 Published : 2021-05-22

Keywords: Nationalism, Reza Shah, Constitutionalism, dictatorship, Kasravi,

Abstract :

The intellectual dough of Asid Mohammad Kasravi was formed during the constitutional movement and under the influence of its ideals. A person who dresses as a clergyman in the first stage of his life, but due to the formation of a series of intellectual events, distances himself from this stage of his life. He experienced two world wars, the constitutional movement and the dictatorship of Reza Shah. His intellectual and research background also made him comment on various issues and think on various issues. Kasravi was one of the intellectuals of the constitutional movement and its ideals, but this movement quickly became authoritarian. Kasravi, who had experienced both spaces, discussed them in his works. The important point is that Kasravi, unlike many critics of Reza Shah, in spite of some negligible criticisms, strongly defended Reza Shah's actions. Subjugation within social institutions provided for personal domination and submission. Kasravi's goal was to validate the nationalist values ​​he sought, which in some of Kasravi's works in this regard followed his unifying nationalism. And it has no territorial integrity, and local power is a rebellious power.