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Muhammad 'Ilaqihaband Yazdi Tarikh-i- Mashrutiyyat History of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran, 1905-1911 Read Here

Mangol Bayat Iran's First Revolution: Shi'Ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909 Buy Here

Houri Berberian Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1911 Buy Here

Janet Afary The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911 Buy Here

Ervand Abrahamian Iran Between Two Revolutions Buy Here

Scholarly Articles

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Historicizing Revolutions

Ervand Abrahamian, The Causes of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3. (Aug., 1979), pp. 381-414.
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Nikki R. Keddie, Iranian Revolutions in Comparative Perspective, The American Historical Review, Vol. 88, No. 3. (Jun., 1983), pp. 579-598.
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Nader Sohrabi, Historicizing Revolutions: Constitutional Revolutions in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, and Russia, 1905-1908, The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 100, No. 6. (May, 1995), pp. 1383-1447.
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Mansour Bonakdarian, "A World Born Through the Chamber of a Revolver : Revolutionary Violence, Culture, and Modernity in Iran, 1905-1911," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 25:2 (2005).

Said Amir Arjomand, Iran's Islamic Revolution in Comparative Perspective, World Politics, Vol. 38, No. 3. (Apr., 1986), pp. 383-414.
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Oriental Despotism

Homa Katouzian, "The Aridisolatic Society: A Model of Long-Term Social and Economic Development in Iran," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2. (May, 1983), pp. 259-281.
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Homa Katouzian, "Arbitrary Rule: A Comparative Theory of State, Politics and Society in Iran," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1. (May, 1997), pp. 49-73.
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Ervand Abrahamian, Oriental Despotism: The Case of Qajar Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1. (Jan., 1974), pp. 3-31.
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Hafez Farmayan, "Portrait of a Nineteenth-Century Iranian Statesman: The Life and Times of Grand Vizier Amin ud-Dawlah, 1844-1904," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3. (Aug., 1983), pp. 337-351.
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Transformations

Gad G. Gilbar, "The Opening Up of Qajar Iran: Some Economic and Social Aspects," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 49, No. 1, In Honour of Ann K. S. Lambton. (1986), pp. 76-89.
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Hassan Hakimian, "Wage Labor and Migration: Persian Workers in Southern Russia, 1880-1914," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 17, No. 4. (Nov., 1985), pp. 443-462.
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Cosroe Chaqueri, "Transformation of the Economic System," in Origins of Social Democracy iin Modern Iran (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), 45-76.

Becoming National

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Fractured Memories," in Refashioning Iran: Orientalism,Occidentalism,and Nationalist Historiography Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001).

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Fragile Frontiers: The Diminishing Domains of Qajar Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2. (May, 1997), pp. 205-234.
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Juan R. I. Cole, "Iranian Millenarianism and Democratic Thought in the 19th Century,"
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1. (Feb., 1992), pp. 1-26.
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Nikki R. Keddie, "The Origins of the Religious-Radical Alliance in Iran," Past and Present, No. 34. (Jul., 1966), pp. 70-80.
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Mangol Bayat Philipp, "The Concepts of Religion and Government in the Thought of Mirza Aqa Khan Kirmani, a Nineteenth-Century Persian Revolutionary," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4. (Sep., 1974), pp. 381-400.
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Juan R. I. Cole: "The Provincial Politics of Heresy and Reform in Qajar Iran: Shaykh al-Ra'is in Shiraz, 1895-1902," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 22 (2005).

Patriotism and Matriotism

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland (Vatan)," Refashioning Iran: Orientalism,Occidentalism,and Nationalist Historiography Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001).

Afsaneh Najmabadi, "The Erotic Vatan [Homeland] as Beloved and Mother: To Love, to Possess, and To Protect (in Routes of Nationalism)," Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 39, No. 3. (Jul., 1997), pp. 442-467.
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Revolutionary Populism

John Foran, The Strengths and Weaknesses of Iran's Populist Alliance: A Class Analysis of the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911, Theory and Society, Vol. 20, No. 6. (Dec., 1991), pp. 795-823.
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M. Reza Afshari, The Historians of the Constitutional Movement and the Making of the Iranian Populist Tradition, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Aug., 1993), pp. 477-494.
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Social Forces and Alliances

Mohammad Reza Afshari, The Pishivaran and Merchants in Precapitalist Iranian Society: An Essay on the Background and Causes of the Constitutional Revolution, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2. (May, 1983), pp. 133-155.
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Houri Berberian, "Traversing Boundaries and Selves: Iranian-Armenian Identity during the Iranian Consitutional Revolution," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 25:2 (2005).

Eden Naby, "The Assyrians of Iran: Reunification of a "Millat," 1906-1914," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2. (Apr., 1977), pp. 237-249.
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Arash Khazeni, "The Bakhtiyari Tribe in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 25:2 (2005).

Janet Afary, Peasant Rebellions of the Caspian Region during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1909, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2. (May, 1991), pp. 137-161.
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Richard Tapper, "Raiding, Reaction and Rivalry: The Shahsevan Tribes in the Constitutional Period," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 49, No. 3. (1986), pp. 508-531.
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Gene R. Garthwaite, "The Bakhtiyari Khans, the Government of Iran, and the British, 1846-1915," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1. (Jan., 1972), pp. 24-44.
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Transnational Forces and Alliances

Ira Klein, "British Intervention in the Persian Revolution, 1905-1909," The Historical Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4. (Dec., 1972), pp. 731-752.
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David McLean, "A Professor Extraordinary: E. G. Browne and His Persian Campaign 1908-1913 (in Communications)," The Historical Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2. (Jun., 1978), pp. 399-408.
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Nikki R. Keddie, British Policy and the Iranian Opposition 1901-1907, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 39, No. 3. (Sep., 1967), pp. 266-282.
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Mansour Bonakdarian, Iranian Constitutional Exiles and British Foreign-Policy Dissenters, 1908-9, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2. (May, 1995), pp. 175-191.
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Mansour Bonakdarian, "The Persia Committee and the Constitutional Revolution in Iran," British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2. (1991), pp. 186-207.
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D. McLean, "English Radicals, Russia, and the Fate of Persia 1907-1913 (in Notes and Documents)," The English Historical Review, Vol. 93, No. 367. (Apr., 1978), pp. 338-352.
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Rose Louise Greaves, "Some Aspects of the Anglo-Russian Convention and Its Working in Persia, 1907-14--I," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 31, No. 1. (1968), pp. 69-91.
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Thomas P. Brockway, "Britain and the Persian Bubble, 1888-92," The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 13, No. 1. (Mar., 1941), pp. 36-47.
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A. P. Thornton, "British Policy in Persia, 1858-1890," The English Historical Review, Vol. 70, No. 274. (Jan., 1955), pp. 55-71.
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The Bases of the Iran Constitution

The Farman of 5 August 1906 [14 JUMADI II 1324]
The Electoral Law of 9 September 1906 [20 RAJAB 1324]
The Fundamental Laws of 30 December 1906 [14 Zul Qa‘dah 1324]
The Supplementary Fundamental Laws of 7 October 1907 [29 Sha‘ban 1325]
The New Electoral Law of 1 July 1909 [12 Jamadi II 1327]

A. Farmanfarma, "Constitutional Law of Iran (in Comments)," The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 3, No. 2. (Spring, 1954), pp. 241-247.
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Janet Afary, "Civil Liberties and the Making of Iran’s First Constitution," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 25:2 (2005).

Journalism and the Public Sphere

Ali Gheissari, "Despots of the World Unite!Satire in the Iranian Constitutional Press: The Majalleh-ye Estebdad (1907-1908)," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 25:2 (2005).