Application of the Theory of

Ahmadvand, Fatemeh

doi:10.22059/jhss.2025.386212.473758

Application of the Theory of "Crisis" in Historical Sciences: A Case Study of the Ideology of the Iranian Constitutional Movement by Adamiyat

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Fatemeh Ahmadvand

Department of History and Civilization of Islamic Nations, Faculty of Islamic Sciences and Researches, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2025.386212.473758

Abstract

Spragens's theory of crisis is presented to understand political ideas in the form of dividing the text of thought into propositions focused on the crisis, the causes of the crisis, the solution to the crisis, and an ideal society without crisis. The present study, by utilizing this theory, attempts to understand the dominant thought in the book The Ideology of the Iranian Constitutional Movement written by Fereydoun Adamiyat, using a library method and the method of content analysis. The assumption of this study is that the historian of thought and society, which carries the changes in thought, practically acts as a political theorist by analyzing and selecting reports. Therefore, by relying on the commonality of both fields of political thought and history in relying on the text, it is possible to reread the Adamiyat's The Ideology from the perspective of Spragens' theory. The achievement of this study shows that Adamiyat, like a political thinker, also believed in the existence of a crisis in the society he narrated in his work. This crisis had manifested itself in political, social, and economic forms, and Iranian society was suffering from it on the eve of constitutionalism. Adamiyat considers the causes of this crisis to be Absolutism, i.e., the absence of the rule of law and the Iranian society's lack of a legislative assembly and an efficient government based on the law, and he considers constitutionalism to be the way out of it, relying on the creation of a legislative assembly and the establishment of a government based on the spirit of Iranian nationality. An analysis of the work's themes shows that Adamiyat's ideal society is a modernized Iranian society in the Western style, in which the concepts of people, rights, and freedom are given authority and a structure based on law, a parliament, and an efficient government are put into practice.

Keywords

Adamiyat

Spragens

constitutionalism

crisis

qajar

Subjects

History

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