Iran's experiment with Parliamentary governmence : the second Majles 1909-1911 / Mangol Bayat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayat, Mangol, author.

Series:

Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--History--1905-1911.

Iran.

History.

Iran--Politics and government--1905-1911.

Politics and government.

Constitutional history--Iran.

Constitutional history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 504 pages ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2020.

Summary:

For the past several decades, scholars have studied and written about the Iranian constitutional revolution with the 1979 Islamic Revolution as a subtext, obscuring the secularist trend that characterized its very nature. Constitutionalist leaders represented a diverse composite of beliefs, yet they all shared a similar vision of a new Iran, one that included far-reaching modernizing reforms and concepts rooted in the European Enlightenment. The second national assembly (majles), during its brief two-year term, aspired to legislate these reforms in one of the most important experiments in parliamentary governance. Mangol Bayat provides a much-needed detailed analysis of this historic episode, examining the national and international actors, and the political climate that engendered one crisis after another, ultimately leading to its fateful end. Bayat highlights the radical transformation of old institutions and the innovation of new ones, and most importantly, shows how this term provided a reasonably successful model of parliament imposing its will on the executive power that was primarily composed of old-guard, elite leaders. At the same time, Bayat challenges the traditional perception among scholars that reform attempts failed due to sectarian politics and ideological differences.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Freemasonry and the Constitutional Revolution

2. The Politics of the Restoration of the Constitution

3. The March to Tehran

4. Prelude to the Second Majles

5. The Parties

6. Legislative Reforms

7. European Interventionism

8. The Political Crisis

9. The Aftermath of Ayatollah Behbahani's Assassination

10. Battling for the Future

11. The Summer of Discontent

12. Political Intrigues and Royal Conspiracy

13. The End Stages of the Second Majles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815636861

0815636865

9780815636762

0815636768

OCLC:

1126553669