نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1906) created the conditions for a fundamental transformation in the country's political, social, and cultural spheres, paving the way for a transition from absolute monarchy to a rule-of-law national governance. This transformation required an appropriate cultural foundation for the consolidation of new political and legal concepts; literature, and Persian poetry in particular, played a considerable role in embedding these concepts within contemporary society and political thought. During this period, Persian literature became an important instrument in the process of institutionalizing public law. This study is organized in a descriptive-analytical manner to explain the active role of Constitutional-era literature in transmitting and internalizing public law concepts such as the rule of law and national sovereignty. The central research question is: how did Constitutional literature contribute to the institutionalization of public law concepts, particularly the ideas of law and national sovereignty? The findings indicate that the literature of this era, by distancing itself from the complex language of earlier periods, employing plain language, and avoiding excessive use of literary ornamentation, was placed in the service of substantive utility. This approach, by addressing the general public, succeeded in conveying foundational legal concepts to various segments of society. In this way, Constitutional literature, as the cultural arm of the constitutionalist movement, rendered new concepts such as national sovereignty, general will, and constitutional law accessible to all, transferring them from the elite level to the broader populace. By sustaining the discourse of public law, literature prepared the ground for replacing the ruler's will with the will of the people, establishing the rule of law, and consolidating national sovereignty as the source of political legitimacy.
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