Historical Unconsciousness and the Descending Religion in Contemporary Iranshahr Thought

Almost all Iranian contemporary intellectuals have seen religion the same as European intellectuals of Enlightenment tradition to be cause of underdevelopment. In Iranian contemporary history we can see evidences of the same trend: secularism during Constitutional Revolution; Reza Shah’s Bonapartism; leftism and liberalism during Mohammad Reza Shah; and even independence-oriented of Mossadiqi nationalism. But, studying Iranian modern history as it has been parallel to European modern one shows that the religion has come to be with state upon raison d’état. Having neglicted the necessity of being state with religion, although proceeding in theorizing and initializing the spread of liberty, rule of law, democracy, . . . in contemporary Iran, it has not gone further in theorizing the relation of state and religion so as to institute much more powerful and legitimate state. The current paper goes on to believe that the very important factor in strengthen of national power is formulating this relation. As it may come into mind why this formulating has been neglicted in Iranshahr thought as a very important question, the paper concludes and finds “historical unconsciousness” to the formulation as the best answer.