Ali Akbar Tashakkuri Bafqi - <p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align:right;line-height:200%;direction:
rtl;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><span lang="AR-SA">تشکرى بافقى، على اكبر. <i>مشروطيت در
يزد: از ورود انديشۀ نوين تا كودتاى سيد ضياء الدين طباطبائى: ١٢٩٩- ١٢٨٥ش</i>.
تهران: </span><span lang="FA">مرکز یزد شناسی،
١٣۷۷/١٩٩٩-١٩٩٨، ٢٩٠ص.</span><span dir="LTR"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align:right;line-height:200%;direction:
rtl;unicode-bidi:embed"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Tashakkuri Bafqi, ʻAli Akbar. <i>Mashrutiyat
dar Yazd: az Vurud-i Andishah-yi Navin ta Kudita-yi Sayyid Ziyaʼ al-Din
Tabatabaʼi: 1285-1299 Sh</i>. Tehran: Markaz-i Yazdshinasi, 1998-1999, 290pp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><b style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">ABSTRACT<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><b style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><b style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Constitutionalism
in Yazd: From the Introduction of the New Contemplation until the Coup d’etat
of Seyyed Ziaeddin Tabatabaei (1906-1920)<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" dir="RTL" style="text-align:center;line-height:
200%;direction:rtl;unicode-bidi:embed;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><i><span lang="AR-SA">مشروطيت در يزد: از ورود انديشۀ نوين
تا كودتاى سيد ضياء الدين طباطبائى: ١٢٩٩- ١٢٨٥ش</span></i><span dir="LTR"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">The first
chapter provides an overview of the city’s history and geography. It also
covers some of Yazd’s natural limitations which have isolated the town from
other centres of power. However, in the rest of the book which is divided into
four sections on politics, society, economics, and culture, the main aim is to
consider how new ideas about constitutionalism became popular in a place like
Yazd.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">In each
section, the book shows how the wave of constitutionalism shifted course after
coming into contact with the edges of the “remote world” of Yazd and became
subject to interpretation to the extent that it ultimately ends in the
reproduction of the same despotism of the past, but in a smaller dimension and
with greater chaos. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Perhaps the
book’s most important characteristic is that it does not address the history of
constitutionalism based on occurrences in Tehran, as is usually the case, but
from the perspective of a small but heterogeneous city. Attitudes toward
constitutionalism from the viewpoint of the city’s clergy, merchants, and
religious minorities, especially the Zoroastrians, are clearly evident from
public correspondence, minutes of meetings, newspapers, and the confidential
correspondence with the British Embassy, all of which have been published in
the book. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;border:none;
mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">This work
sketches a picture of constitutionalism in “one of the most remote parts of
Iran” for critics and scholars of modernity and modernisation in Iran. This
picture is one in which the ideas of constitutionalism which aimed to weaken
absolutism and to establish a parliamentary order failed. These ideas became
instruments in the hands of despots and local looters who further encroached on
the lives and property of the people behind the cloak of constitutionalism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;line-height:200%;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Iradj
Esmailpour Ghouchani<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;line-height:200%;
border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;mso-border-shadow:yes"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Translated
by Niki Akhavan <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><o:p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">&nbsp;</o:p></p>
Constitutionalism in Yazd: From the Introduction of the New Contemplation until the Coup d’État of Seyyed Ziaeddin Tabatabaei (1906–1920)
Type
abstract
Year
2014

تشکرى بافقى، على اكبر. مشروطيت در يزد: از ورود انديشۀ نوين تا كودتاى سيد ضياء الدين طباطبائى: ١٢٩٩- ١٢٨٥ش. تهران: مرکز یزد شناسی، ١٣۷۷/١٩٩٩-١٩٩٨، ٢٩٠ص.

 

Tashakkuri Bafqi, ʻAli Akbar. Mashrutiyat dar Yazd: az Vurud-i Andishah-yi Navin ta Kudita-yi Sayyid Ziyaʼ al-Din Tabatabaʼi: 1285-1299 Sh. Tehran: Markaz-i Yazdshinasi, 1998-1999, 290pp.

 

ABSTRACT

 

Constitutionalism in Yazd: From the Introduction of the New Contemplation until the Coup d’etat of Seyyed Ziaeddin Tabatabaei (1906-1920)

 

مشروطيت در يزد: از ورود انديشۀ نوين تا كودتاى سيد ضياء الدين طباطبائى: ١٢٩٩- ١٢٨٥ش

 

The first chapter provides an overview of the city’s history and geography. It also covers some of Yazd’s natural limitations which have isolated the town from other centres of power. However, in the rest of the book which is divided into four sections on politics, society, economics, and culture, the main aim is to consider how new ideas about constitutionalism became popular in a place like Yazd.

 

In each section, the book shows how the wave of constitutionalism shifted course after coming into contact with the edges of the “remote world” of Yazd and became subject to interpretation to the extent that it ultimately ends in the reproduction of the same despotism of the past, but in a smaller dimension and with greater chaos.

 

Perhaps the book’s most important characteristic is that it does not address the history of constitutionalism based on occurrences in Tehran, as is usually the case, but from the perspective of a small but heterogeneous city. Attitudes toward constitutionalism from the viewpoint of the city’s clergy, merchants, and religious minorities, especially the Zoroastrians, are clearly evident from public correspondence, minutes of meetings, newspapers, and the confidential correspondence with the British Embassy, all of which have been published in the book.

 

This work sketches a picture of constitutionalism in “one of the most remote parts of Iran” for critics and scholars of modernity and modernisation in Iran. This picture is one in which the ideas of constitutionalism which aimed to weaken absolutism and to establish a parliamentary order failed. These ideas became instruments in the hands of despots and local looters who further encroached on the lives and property of the people behind the cloak of constitutionalism.

 

Iradj Esmailpour Ghouchani

Translated by Niki Akhavan

 

 

Citation
Esmailpour Ghouchani, Iradj. “English abstract of 'of Constitutionalism in Yazd: From the Introduction of the New Contemplation until the Coup d’etat of Seyyed Ziaeddin Tabatabaei (1906-1920)'". Translated by Niki Akhavan. In Cities as Built and Lived Environments: Scholarship from Muslim Contexts, 1875 to 2011, by Aptin Khanbaghi. 84. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
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