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This paper is an attempt lo study some of the explanations of the Islamic evolution of Iran, including explanations based on the theories of mass society, modem world system, rapid modernization, uneven development, oerscnalized state power structure, the weakness of the state repressive ipparatus, the vulnerability of the rentier state, discourse analysis, and nostical theories .. For this purpose first, the theoretical framework and the main questions and iypothes,s of these works have been introduced. In the next step, the explanarions of the Islamic revolution of Iran on the basis of these frameworks rave been elaborated and criticized.

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