Exploring the ideas of Talibov Tabrizi on the Islam-West interaction in light of...

Talibov Tabrizi was an Islamist intellectual of the Constitutional Revolution period who, unlike his contemporaries, in his works addressed the masses. He was striving to solve the crisis of the scientific and industrial backwardness in Iran. Talibov remained an Islamist while in his time the problem of interaction or conflict between Islam and West was the order of the day and some intellectuals mitigated Islamic principles. Even after being excommunicated, he did not violated Islamic principles. The present research adopts a historical methodology and is descriptive-analytical in nature, with especial emphasis on library sources in particular Masalek al-Mohsenin, a book that deals with the developments of the Constitutional Revolution period and its author’s political career. The study aims to explore the view advanced by Talibov on the interaction or conflict between the western culture and the Islamic culture.