Sheikh Mohammad Khiyaabaani and his Thoughts

All the movements in history were based on a particular thinking structure. Identifying the mental elements forming a thought behind a rise paves the way to understand and analyze it. This paper wants to identify the main elements in the thinking structure of Sheikh Mohammad Khiyaabaani movement and identify the goals and motives of Khiyaabaani as the leader, based on different analysis and interpretations made pro or against him. In this regard, his rise is more considered as anti-despotic and anti-reactionary one that wanted to imply constitution and liberty in Iran and it was not a separatist move or seeking independence of Azerbaijan. In other words, the dominant thinking structure of Khiyaabaani is liberal and democratic, in which modernism can be followed and displace the governing oligarchy with the will of the nation.