Shiism and Constitutionalism in Iran explained

Shīīsm and Constitutionalism in Iran
Language:	English
Subject:	Constitutionalism in Iran
Publisher:	Brill
Pub Date:	1977
Media Type:	Print

Shī'īsm and constitutionalism in Iran: a study of the role played by the Persian residents of Iraq in Iranian politics is a 1977 book by Abdul-Hadi Hairi. This book is originally the author's doctoral thesis at McGill University, first published in English in 1977 in Leiden. Then the author published it in Persian in Iran in the summer of 1979. This book is one of the most important researches about the thinking of scholars of Najaf and Qom during Iranian constitutional movement.^[1]

Reception

The book was reviewed by R. M. Burrell in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies and by Said Amir-Arjomand in the Iranian Studies.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Martin . V. A. . The Anti-Constitutionalist Arguments of Shaikh Fazlallah Nuri . Middle Eastern Studies . 1986 . 22 . 2 . 181–196 . 0026-3206.
2. Arjomand . Said Amir . Religion and Ideology in the Constitutional Revolution . Iranian Studies . 1979 . 12 . 3/4 . 283–291 . 0021-0862.
3. Burrell . R. M. . Abdul-Hadi Hairi: Shī'īsm and constitutionalism in Iran: a study of the role played by the Persian residents of Iraq in Iranian politics. xiv, 274 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977. Guilders 64. . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies . February 1979 . 42 . 1 . 190–190 . 10.1017/S0041977X00109073 . en . 1474-0699.