The experiment of political law-codifying in Naseri (Qajar) Era: Discourse analysis

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Department of Political Sciences, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

The idea of legalism was the main reform trend in the Qajar era and formed an important part of the "political modernization experience" in this period. With the expansion of the "law seeking discourse in the Nasserite era", the "legislative drafting experience" was one of the important trends in this field. In this research, while using the method and theory of "critical discourse analysis", this "experience" is discussed. For this purpose, seven selected political and governmental laws written in the Nasrid era have been considered. The purpose of this research is to analyze the issue of how the "law writings" of this period, which were popular in different types, appear in political laws. The basic question of this research is that what is the relationship between the "experience" of political legislative drafting in the Nasrid era and the discourse of legalism in this period? The findings of the research show that these laws are more than anything based on creating "order" for the government and are in accordance with the discourse of "absolute orderly rule" which was promoted by people like Mirza Malkam Khan from the middle years of Naseruddin Shah's reign and promoted in various ways. Of course, many of these laws, and in other cases as well, did not reach the stage of implementation, but an important part of the legalistic ideas in the Qajar era expanded with the spread of such laws, and at the same time, it showed the weakness of the government in the evolution of the state-building process by applying new laws, which was delayed until the following decades.

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حوزة موضوعی: ایران

Scope: Iran

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