The Interaction of Political Theory and Practice in Shia Political Thought and Its Role in the First Pahlavi Developments

Looking at the historical developments in Islam, we can distinguish three trends in opinion and practice. A tendency that takes precedence into action, a tendency which precedes theory as an action, and believes in the third tendency to interact with theory and political action. Meanwhile, the Shiite belongs to the Third Trend. Throughout the Shiite history, different approaches, such as taqiyya, have been chosen by the Shia in the context of this tendency, and reform and revolution in interaction with the political environment. Or approaching the contemporary Shiite era is far from the approaches of taqiyya and reformation, and in particular, with the emergence of the Pahlavi era in modern Iranian history, we are approaching a revolutionary approach and an attempt to form an Islamic state. Here, the main question of the research is that the objective context and developments of Reza Khan have had an effect on the Shi'a political thought in that period, and how this thought has influenced the political action of the Shiite scholars active in this age?