The emergence of backwardness discourse in iran

Document Type : علمی وپزوهشی

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1 Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

2 Member of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

10.22059/jsr.2024.362524.1883

Abstract

we have hypothesized how the discourse of backwardness emerged as the core of the system of power-knowledge in Iran through the connection of concepts, issues and strategies. Adamit, as the main agent and bearer of the "discourse of backwardness", with the unique and random access that he had in the 1340s and 1350s. He finds in the letters, writings and works of Iranian romantic nationalists (Akhundzadeh and Mirza AKermani) and by emphasizing, using and empathetically referring to the works and paradoxical and dual expression of these two pre-conditional advanced enlighteners, which includes a mixture of ideological texts. Dasatiri of Azar Kivanian (contemporary of the Safavids) and the teachings resulting from it, which turned into an eclectic ideology, focusing on "ancient Iran", "anti-Arabism" [read anti-Islamism], "Persian writing" and "superiority of Nejadi', specifically "Aryan race", created a new discourse by disrupting the previously established discourse order in the Iranian historiography tradition, and through these discourses, the fat concept of backwardness finds a specific and coherent style of expression, its concepts and subjects are determined, the system of The knowledge and order of speech is formed around it and events are understood through it.a new order and a new regime of truth were built. Until the historiography of mankind, such a discourse structure and order had not appeared. In this discourse formulation, "pre-Islamic" Iran is considered to be the symbol and indicator of the era of "power and greatness" and "Islamic period" represents the "weakness and chaos" of Iran.

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Sociological Review
Volume 31, Issue 2
(Autumn & winter 2025)
March 2025
Pages 33-57

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