Confrontation between religion and modernity in Iran during the Qajar period

The present essay seeks to understand the relationship between religion and modernity in the Qajar period. The lack of awareness of modernity on the one hand and the modernization of the society on the other hand, set the conditions in such a way that the components of modernity are needed so that the society moves from the traditional state to modernity. In this period, which was the origin of modernity in the West and the flow of development naturally took place in the advanced industrial countries, and the industrial and advanced countries of that time were led to development from the many conflicts between the three centers of political, religious and economic power, after the war In the second world, when the flow of development tried to enter the non-developed countries and they were faced with structural and territorial barriers and the lack of legal and legal guarantees, they turned into countries against the flow of development. In the country of Iran, the process of development started with the constitution, but at the same time, many factors were the main obstacles for this development by fueling social, religious and political discontinuity. In the present essay, which was written using the method of library and content analysis, it tries to explore the components of modernity and their relationship with religion in the Qajar period. The results show that industry and technology, new schools, freedom, law, parliament and constitution, equality and modern army are among the most important and necessary components of modernity for the Iranian society of the Qajar period, and on the other hand, aspects such as thinking Religion in Iran during the Qajar period, tyranny of the Qajar period, fatalism and economy were the most important obstacles to the entry of modernity into Iran during the Qajar period.