Historiography of Iran's Sports Development Space (1906 to 1941)

Sports as a modern phenomenon was noticed after the constitutional revolution, which indicates the efforts of the constitutionalists to manage the country's affairs optimally, including sports and physical education. Laws related to sports in the parliament are among the electronic documents and part of the historical sources of the first category, sports events were also extracted from the historical sources of the first and the second category of history. In this research, by analyzing the content of the laws, using the qualitative content analysis method, the concepts and terms in the text of the laws were analyzed by inferring and revealing their hidden patterns and themes. For this purpose, coding, drawing a diagram and extracting categories were done with MAXQDA2020 software; The statistical population of content analysis, laws and legal rulings related to the issue of physical education in the parliament during the period of 1320-1285 and the total number of the sample was considered equal to the population. The results showed that the two categories of development of educational sports and development of championship and club sports include legislative policies. Holding sports competitions, setting up sports clubs, forming a football forum, building sports facilities, forming a physical training association and establishing sports clubs were the sports events that happened approximately between the mentioned years. Therefore, based on the analysis of the legal content of sports and its time matching with important sports events, the development space of modern Iranian sports was chronicled in this period of time.