Intellectual revolution of Iranian intellectuals in the middle of two revolutions

After the constitutional revolution and the failure to create a powerful central government, Iranian intellectuals from the 1290s onwards supported the emergence of Reza Khan by presenting new ideas and emphasizing absolute modernism. Less than four decades later, another generation of intellectuals during the 1940s and 1950s played an irreplaceable role in the social mobilization against the Pahlavi government with an intellectual turn from Westernism to traditionalism. The aim of the present study is to analyze the reason for the intellectual turn of Iranian intellectuals from Westernism to traditionalism in the middle of two revolutions. Therefore, in response to the reason for the intellectual turn of Iranian intellectuals, this hypothesis is investigated that the intellectuals of the 1290s in response to the constitutional failure and the intellectuals of the 1340s in response to the absolute modernism of the West chose two different approaches, Westernism and traditionalism. In this research, the hypothesis has been proved by taking advantage of the inherent characteristic of intellectuals and explaining their origin in the middle of two revolutions. The current research is of the "descriptive-analytical research" type in terms of implementation method and it has used library studies to collect information and data.