A Study of Allamah Naini's Political Thought Based on Spragen's Crises Theory

Iran Constitutional Movement is one of the major events of the contemporary history of Iran which is significant from its practical as well as its theoretical aspects.One of the Movement's proponents was Naini who, as a religious scholar, in addition to his struggles against Qajar absolute kings rule, was active in theorizing the process of the Constitutional Movement and wrote his seminal book, Tanbih Alumma, in this regard. Although Naini's book has been reviewed from various point of view during recent decades, in the present research, for the first time, his political ideas as described in Tanbih Alumma, was studied through the application of Spragens famous crises model.Thus, each major section of his theory was explained according to a relevant stage of crisis to see to what extent the theory, as whole, may help us to have a better understanding of the Allamah Naini Political Thought.