Images of Modern Govermentality in Pre-constitutionality: Focusing on treatise of Discovery of Unusals by Majd Al-Molk Sinki

Entrance of renewal to Iran was the beginning of opinion making about the identity of the state and its effect on retardedness of Iran. Iran’s defeat by Russia during two wars caused that this thought to become deepened. Emergence of reformists and inteleectuals was a response to this issue, though they had different approaches to the identity of the modern state in The West and deficits ofstate in Iran depeding on how these people became familiar with and connected with Western Renewal. The current study is based on analytical-descriptive method focusing on Michel Foko’s soverignity theory discusses approach of Majd Al-Molk to modern state identity relying upon analysis of treatise of Discovery of Unusal.this work is among the first critical works of Qajar Era. Achievement of this research indicates that though Majd Al-Molk criticizes traditional state identity in Iran based on criticism of soverignity in the framework of state, criticism of king and decadence of ideal king pattern, actors’ incompetencies, inefficiencies of state institutes but his approach has deprivation aspect and does not present an ideal pattern against state soverinity. On the other hand, his approach to modern state identity is superficial is mainly in the framework of legal state, seperating legislative institution from adminstrative institution and attempt to focus on the concept of nation against people and little referral to democracy.