Introduction to Shaikh Asadollah Mamghani’s Life and Thoughts (1881-1971)

One of the influential periods of Iran history was the constitutionalism era. During this time, various practitioners were included consisting of various persons from religious authorities to liberals. One of the influential practitioners was Shaikh Asadollah Mamaghani. He was a religious clergyman who occupied various formal positions and experienced different events from the constitutionalism to the 28th Mordad coup. He was one of the statesmen who had significant position in religion science and combined two conflicting dimensions of religion and politics together. It is necessary to mention that there is no independent research to evaluate various dimensions of his role and thoughts in the politics and his position as political clergyman in Iran history. In fact, there are dispersed researches. The recent paper is an effort to evaluate political-social activities and thoughts of Shaikh Asadollah Mamaghani during one of the influential era of Iran history as the constitutionalism period to Pahlavi dynasty. The research is conducted as descriptive-analytical based on library methodology.