Foundations of Modern Islamic Sovereignty in Pre-constitutional Period: Focusing on Treaty of One Word

Knowing the issue of Iran's retardation in Qajar Era, intellectuals began to think about the causes of this, disadvantages of establishing state in Iran and considered its change a factor of advancement and booming in The West. Attempts to understanding renewal viewpoints in The West and imitating it caused analyze and recognize thoughts of this group in relation to identity foundations. Some of them consider religion as the factor of retardation and decline of Iran's society against modernity and considered Islam as a disabled entity to present a noble pattern for change in political-social structure. Mostashar-Al-Doule is among the intellectuals of constitutional era and tries to adapt the modern sovereignty statements with content of Quran, and prove the modernity compatible with Islam. This paper tries to interpret and adapt the content with modern sovereignty statements based on one-word treaty. The achievement of present study indicates that the main objective of compiling one-word is attempt to present adaptation of Islam and Modernity along with native and religious content of modern sovereignty that is easy to understand based on Quran content, Islamic Sayings and focusing on comprehensive Islam Religion in relation to modern thought in The West. This research while rejecting dominant approaches of tis time, i.e. pre-constitutional era based on incompatibility of religion and modernity and utility exploitation of religion, renders a new representation of it.