International Journal of Middle East Studies

Table of Contents - 1987 - Volume 19, Issue 04  

Research Article

The Ulama–State Relations in Iran: 1921–1941

Mohammad H. Faghfoorya1

a1 Alexandria Virginia

The role of the ulama in Iranian politics during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been studied extensively. Particularly the rise of the ulama's social influence and power in the Tobacco Movement (1891–1892) and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1911 has been investigated at length. Much less attention has been devoted to examining the relationship between the ulama and the state after the Constitutional Revolution, and the role of the religious community in Reza Khan's assumption of power and his subsequent accession to the throne in 1925.

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