Macrohistory of the legal transformations in Iran from the reception of Turk-Mongolian law to the inception of legal modernization

Egileak

  • Saïd Amir Arjomand Stony Brook University

##plugins.pubIds.doi.readerDisplayName##:

https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1069

Gako-hitzak:

Legal transplantation, Turko-Mongolian and Islamic law, modernization, shari`a and qanun (state law), legal dualism

Laburpena

Two major transformations in the constitutional history of the Islamic Middle East are examined with reference to Iran. Two snapshots sketch the consequences of the reception, respectively, of the Turko-Mongolian since the first half of the fifteenth century, marked the reconciliation of Turko-Mongolian and Islamic law, and of the legal framework of the international system of modern nation-states in the nineteenth century. The turning point from the Turko-Mongolian to the modern legal transplantation is the collapse of the last Turko-Mongolian empire in world history – that of Nāder Shah (1736-1747). It was followed by half a century of internecine tribal warfare from which Iran emerged as a state forced to adopt Western law in the century-long course of its defensive modernization against imperialist pressure that resulted in the inception of legal modernization.

##plugins.generic.usageStats.downloads##

##plugins.generic.usageStats.noStats##

        Metrics

Views 343
Downloads:
PDF (English) 269


Erreferentziak

Amanat, A., 2017. Iran: A Modern History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Arjomand, S.A., 1983. The Office of Mullā-bāshi in Shi`ite Iran. Studia Islamica, 57, 135-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1595486

Arjomand, S.A., 1984. The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Organization and Societal Change in Shi`ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890. University of Chicago Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226924809.001.0001

Arjomand, S.A., 1988. The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran. Oxford University Press.

Arjomand, S.A., 1999. The Law, Agency and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society: Development of the Institutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 41(2), 263-93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S001041759900208X

Arjomand, S.A., 2005. Political Ethic and Public Law in the Early Qajar Period. In: R. M. Gleave, ed., Religion and Society in Qajar Iran. London: Routledge Curzon, pp. 21-40.

Arjomand, S.A., 2013. The Shi`ite Jurists and Iran’s Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century. In: S.A. Arjomand and N.J. Brown, eds., The Rule of Law, Islam and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 15-56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438445984-005

Arjomand, S.A., 2016. Unity of the Persianate World under Turko-Mongolian Domination and Divergent Development of Imperial Autocracies in the Sixteenth Century. Journal of Persianate Studies [online], 9(1), 1-18. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341292 [Accessed 3 May 2019]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341292

Arjomand, S.A., forthcoming. The “King of Islam”: An idea and its typological significance. In: N. Al-Baghdadi and S.H. Nasser, eds., [forthcoming]. Aziz al-Azmeh Festschrift.

Astarābādi, M.K., 2015/1394. Tārikh-e jahāngoshā-ye nāderi. Tehran: Donya-ye Ketāb.

Bayāt, N., ed., 2004/1383. Gozida’yi az monsha’āt-e Mirzā Mahdi Khān Astarābādi. Tehran: Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Doerfer, G., 1963-75. “No. 1789: yāsāq” in Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen : unter besonderer Berücksichtigung älterer neupersischer Geschichtsquellen, vor allem der Mongolen- und Timuridenzeit (vol. 4). Wiesbaden: Steiner, 71-82.

Ettehadieh Nezam-Mafi, M., 1989. The Council for the Investigation of Grievances. Iranian Studies, 22(1), 51-61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00210868908701725

Floor, W., 2009. Judicial System from the Advent of Islam through the Nineteenth Century. Encyclopaedia Iranica [online], 15, 199-204. Available from: http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/judicial-and-legal-systems-iv-judicial-system-from-the-advent-of-islam-through-the-19th-century [Accessed 3 May 2019].

İnalcık, H., 2012. Ḳānūnnāme. In: P. Bearman et al., eds., Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. [online]. Originally published in 1978. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0440 [Accessed 3 May 2019]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0440

Kondo, N., 2017. Islamic Law and Society in Iran: A Social History of Qajar Tehran. London: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315201832

Kondo, N., 2019. How to Found a New Dynasty: The Early Qajars’ Quest for Legitimacy. Journal of Persianate Studies, 12.2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341336

Linant de Bellefonds, Y., Cahen, C., and İnalcık, H., 2012. Ḳānūn. In: P. Bearman et al. eds., Encyclopaedia of Islam. 2nd ed. [online]. Originally published in 1978. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0439 [Accessed 3 May 2019]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0439

Manz, B.F., 1988. Tamerlane and the Symbolism of Sovereignty. Iranian Studies, 21.1-2, 105-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00210868808701711

Mardin, Ş., 1962. The Genesis of the Young Ottoman Thought. A Study in the Modernization of Turkish Political Ideas. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press.

Mohit-Tabātabā’i, M., 1968/1347. Dādgostari dar Irān. [Published as an appendix to the journal, Vahid, Farvardin 1347 issue].

Morgan, D.O., 2005. The “Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan” Revisited. In: R. Amitai-Preiss and M. Biran, eds., Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World. Leiden: Brill, pp. 291-308. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047406334_015

Mostashār al-Dawla, M.Y.K., 1985/1364. Yek Kalama. Tehran: Nashr-e Tārikh-e Irān.

Pāshāzāda, G., 2013/1392. Dar Jostoju-ye qānun. Zendagi o adnisha-ye Mirzā Yusof Khan Mostashār al-Dawla. Tehran: Nashr-e ʿElm.

Qāyeni, J.A.D.M.B. ʿUbaydollāh. Nasāyeh-e Shahrokhi. Vienna: Österreiche Nazionalbibliothek, MS # ONVA10559.

Schneider, I., 2006. The Petitioning System in Iran. State, Society and Power Relations in the Late 19th Century. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Schneider, I., 2008. ʿIzz al-Daula und die Hamaner: Qājārische Localpolitik im Spiegel der Petitionen an Nāsir al-Din Šāh (reg. 1848-1896). In: K. Lorenz, E. Ortmann and F. Schwarz, eds., Die Grenzen der Welt. Arabica et Iranica ad honorem Heinz Gaube. Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 223-41.

Shirāzi, Ebn ʿAbdol-Karim, A.R., 1986. Tārikh-e Zandiyya (Jāneshinān-e Karim Khān Zand), Gh. Varahrām ed., Tehran: Nashr-e Gostarda. (The text being a reprint of Das Tārikh-I Zendije, Ernst Beer, ed., Leiden: Brill, 1888)

Werner, C., 2005a. Pious Merchants: Religious Sentiments in Wills and Testaments. In: R. M. Gleave, ed., Religion and Society in Qajar Iran. London: Routledge Curzon, pp. 211-26.

Werner, C., 2005b. Urf oder Gewohnheitsrecht in Iran: Quellen, Praxis und Begrifflichkeit. In: M. Kemper and M. Reinkowski, eds., Rechtspluralismus in der Islamischen Welt: Gewohnheitsrecht zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 153-75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910483.153

##submission.downloads##

Argitaratuta

2020-10-01

##submission.howToCite##

Arjomand, S. A. (2020) «Macrohistory of the legal transformations in Iran from the reception of Turk-Mongolian law to the inception of legal modernization», Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 10(5), or. 1001–1015. doi: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1069.

##plugins.generic.recommendBySimilarity.heading##

##plugins.generic.recommendBySimilarity.advancedSearchIntro##