The Opposition Islamic Trends against the 1st Pahlavi Power

During the reign of 1st Pahlavi king, the regime moved toward the discourse of “Modernism” to create and impose a new identity on Iranians. A big sector of the society was not in agree with this imposition and being fed by National-Islamic identity and culture was resisting against this identity evolution which was actually an “Assimilation”. The writer has represented this resistance as “The Opposition Islamic Trends”. The attempts by Mudarris in Majlis, the moves by Haj Agha Nourollah Esfahani, the rise of Goharshad Mosque and Tabriz clergy activities were some presentations of this resisting Islamic trend during this period. They could not only resist against the new identity but also challenged the “Power Discourse” and acted in order to deactivate the imposed identity by the power discourse.