A Glance at the Biography and Thoughts of Mirza Aqa khan Kermani

The Orient witnessed a great deal of modern intellectual changes during the thirteenth century H. Q., roughly equivalent to the nineteenth century A. D. Iran, like most other nations of the East, bore reformist scholars whose modern ideas built the intellectual reformist columns of the time. Though not recognized as he deserves, Mirza Aqa khan Kermani (1853-1896) is among the most intellectually influential figures of his time. Reviewing his biography, the present paper aims at studying Kermani’s family origin, his psychological features and the socio-political context of his time which constituted the elements of his intellectual personality. Subsequently, the effect of the above-mentioned factors on his rational transition, political life, thoughts, doctorines as well as his attitude towards his community will be analayezed through a historical approach.