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Minhāj al-ʿulā : Risalaʾī dar bāb-i ḥukūmat-i qānūn / by Abū Ṭālib Bihbihānī ; (Edited by) Ḥūrīa Saʿīdī.
منهاج العلى : رسالهاى در باب حکومت قانون ؛ / مؤلف ابو طالب بهبهانى ؛ به کوشش حوريه سعىدى.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bihbihānī, Abū Ṭālib, author.
- Series:
- Mīrās̲-i Maktūb ; Rasāʼil ; 192. 8
- Tārīkh va jughrāfiyā ; 2
- مىراث مکتوب ؛ رسائل ؛ 192. 8
- تارىخ و جغرافىا ؛ 2
- مىراث مکتوب (سلسله) ؛ ; 192.
- مىراث مکتوب (سلسله). رسائل ؛ ; 8.
- مىراث مکتوب (سلسله). تارىخ و جغرافىا ؛ ; 2.
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Rule of law--Iran.
- Rule of law.
- Political questions and judicial power--Iran.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Iran--History--Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.
- Iran.
- Iran--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- چاپ 1.
- Other Title:
- رسالهاى در باب حکومت قانون
- Place of Publication:
- تهران : مرکز پژوهشى مىراث مکتوب، 1389 [2010 or 2011].
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In Persian; preface and introduction in English.
- Summary:
- In the beginning, Qajar rulership (1210-1344/1796-1925) pretty much reflected the traditional, top-down leadership common among the Turkic tribes from which this dynasty had come forth. It was only under Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh Qājār (r. 1264-1313/1848-96) that serious attempts at reforms were made, initially under Chancellor Mīrzā Taqī Khān, in office between 1264/1848 and 1268/1851. However, Amīr Kabīr's energetic initiatives met with internal resistence, leading to his downfall and subsequent murder in a bathhouse in Fin Garden, Kashan, in 1268/1852. In the years following, Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh introduced various administrative initiatives, but ineffectiveness and internal resistence remained important impediments to genuine reforms. Well-structured and lucid, the present work by Abū Ṭālib Bihbihānī is one of several memoranda on reform that were sent to the shah in the course of his reign. Focussing on the separation of powers as codified in European constitutional law, many of its suggestions were implemented in Iran's first constitution of 1906-07.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-40559-3
- OCLC:
- 742415428
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004405592 DOI
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