Negotiating Freedom

Mostašār od-Doule's Yek kalame and the Iranian Constitutional Experience

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ID4840340
AuthorsGhazaleh Faridzadeh (0000-0003-4087-0513, Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, corresponding author), Raed Faridzadeh (0000-0002-4192-7270, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume61
Issue4
Pages385-410
Publication date2021-03-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDie Welt des Islams (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-2539 • E-ISSN: 1570-0607
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700607-61020005
OpenAlexW3139812130
LanguageEN
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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

Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Modernization theory · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy

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