Sociology
Mohammadreza Tahmak
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To understand government is one of the fundamental grounds of understanding Persia’s history. However, understanding Persia’s history requires examining the constituent parts of Persian society. This study is carried out with a critical approach, in historical individuality employing a mixture ...
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To understand government is one of the fundamental grounds of understanding Persia’s history. However, understanding Persia’s history requires examining the constituent parts of Persian society. This study is carried out with a critical approach, in historical individuality employing a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods and it investigates the proportion of forces in zones of Asir, Beyram, Alamarvdasht, Gallehdar, Gavbandi, Maleki and Tamimi of Fars state prior to the modern state. The findings of this study indicate that on the one hand, people in these regions had been generally armed and possessed the instrument of exerting coercion, on the other hand, the local governors needed the support of their subjects. This process causes the balance of forces between the people and the local governors, subsequently, bringing into existence cores of armed local power. Moreover, the existence of these armed communities in conjunction with data as to forces of central government and macro-level analysis of the country point out to the plural structure of government in Persia prior to its modern state.
Mohammadreza Tahmak; Ebrahim Tofigh
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Regional Aristocracy and Khanian Macro-Landownership in Iran:Gallehdar Region Mohammadreza Tahmak Ebrahim Towfigh Date of Receive: 2014/12/11Date of Accept: 2015/5/19 Abstract: Aristocracy, as an explanatory concept for Iran history, has remained a controversial issue among historical sociologists, who ...
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Regional Aristocracy and Khanian Macro-Landownership in Iran:Gallehdar Region Mohammadreza Tahmak Ebrahim Towfigh Date of Receive: 2014/12/11Date of Accept: 2015/5/19 Abstract: Aristocracy, as an explanatory concept for Iran history, has remained a controversial issue among historical sociologists, who have mentioned that aristocracy has not existed in Iran history. This research carried out with singularity approach and grounded theory method in Gallehdar County, however, resulted in exploring and conceptualizing the khanian macro-landownership and regional aristocracy phenomena, and constructing the theory of continuance of aristocracy of Gallehdar governors in Iran prior to the modern state. The results indicate the longevity of aristocracy, local governance and landownership of Gallehdar governors have been based on local mutual supportive relations (on the one hand, inner- regional, between this aristocratic group and subordinate armed and powerful groups inside the county, and trans-regional relations between this group and governors of regions around the county on the other).
Mohammad Ebrahim Movahedi; Mohammadhossein Panahi; Mohammadreza Tahmak
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Mohammad Ebrahim Movahedi Mohammad Hossein Panahi Mohammadreza Tahmak Date of Receive: 2014/3/7Date of Accept: 2014/6/10Abstractchanges of Local and regional governance institution in Iran, associated with socio-political conditions of the society, is a topic that have not been attended yet in historical ...
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Mohammad Ebrahim Movahedi Mohammad Hossein Panahi Mohammadreza Tahmak Date of Receive: 2014/3/7Date of Accept: 2014/6/10Abstractchanges of Local and regional governance institution in Iran, associated with socio-political conditions of the society, is a topic that have not been attended yet in historical researches. This research has investigated the above-mentioned topic in Bikhejat of Fars with singularity approach to the historical reality, by a mixed method of grounded theory and oral history. The findings show that changes in local and regional governance institution and public socio-political conditions in Bikhejat, on the one hand, has been affected by macro socio-political conditions of the country, and on the other hand, by special socio-political conditions of the region. This is debated in two dispersed patterns: non-centralized sovereignty (from the onset of Qajar to about 1934, and from August 1941 to 1948) and centralized sovereignty (modern state) (from about Solar 1934 to August 1941, and from 1948 to now). The main rapture point is the establishment of a totalitarian modern state in Iran, when local governments are abolished and dissolved; from thenon the changes in local governance follows the formation of the modern state. Moreover, the findings reveal that there is a difference between the history of conformation of non-centralized (federal) sovereignty and modern state in Bikhejat and Tehran; i.e. it is necessary to take into consideration the historical times and multiple temporalities of realities in theorizing state in Iran.
