Negotiating Freedom: Mostašār od-Doule’s Yek kalame and the Iranian Constitutional Experience

Abstract Innumerable modernization measures were implemented in nineteenth-century Iran, in what might be called a process of translation. In the course of translating new ideas into the Iranian context by means of applying old expressions, Iranian legal language underwent sequences of change. To ga...

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Authors: Faridzadeh, Ghazaleh (Author) ; Faridzadeh, Raed (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2021, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 385-410
Further subjects:B Iran
B Reinhart Koselleck
B Qajar era
B conceptual history
B ḥorriyyat (ḥurriyyat)
B Yek kalame
B Freedom
B Mostašār od-Doule
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Summary:Abstract Innumerable modernization measures were implemented in nineteenth-century Iran, in what might be called a process of translation. In the course of translating new ideas into the Iranian context by means of applying old expressions, Iranian legal language underwent sequences of change. To gain a better understanding of current struggles over the proper interpretation of some basic concepts, the paper seeks to explain how the concept of freedom was modified, by reference to Koselleck’s “space of experience” and the “horizon of expectation”. The analysis is based on Mostašār od-Doule’s treatise Yek kalame (“One word”), one of the most important nineteenth-century Iranian source texts, which greatly influenced the further development of the Iranian freedom movement.
ISSN:1570-0607
Contains:Enthalten in: Die Welt des Islams
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700607-61020005