Ownership or land seizure: The social history of structure Transformation of Land ownership in Iran

The purpose of this article is to study the history of structure Transformation of Land ownership in Iran. This study was conducted in the context of the new historical sociology, in particular in relation to the works of Charls Tilly and Micheal Mann, on the basis of which the subject is carried out using documentary and bibliographic methods. Iran's economy at the turn of the twentieth century was a self-coeffient agricultural economy. The basis of this economic structure was the relationship of land acquisition as land ownership, which was justified in terms of Islamic principles and the prevailing custom of society. On this basis, the public attitude to property was negative, so that the property was not socially accepted and respected. It was the sphere of intervention of powerful people and groups. Even the “new middle class” that emerged mainly in the 20th century, did not support property rights, but by advocating a quasi-socialist economy, communal property, and cooperative economics, ultimately represented the same economic approaches to ownership that was traditionally held. The result of this research is that traditional economic and property relations are justified, in the sense that they are reinterpreted in the context of new categories such as “cooperative”, “equality”, “justice”.