Constitution Ages Elites and Articulation of Nationalism Discourse in Iran

Political elites have always played an important role in shaping the discourses in society. So that exploration of political institutionalization and expansion of politics’ realm, legitimize the new values and institutions are the most basic role of the elites that explain the principles of public cooperation and coexistence and bestow national-moral character to political explorations. Iranian political elites in the nineteenth century following the decline of Iran and divergence of dominant discourse of that time were suffering from identity crisis; therefore, for identification have established a new order in the form of ancient-oriented nationalism discourse. For this purpose, they have excluded previous discourse’s signifiers to field of discursivity and have established new discourse around the Iranian nation’s nodal point.  In this research by study of three Iranian intellectual’s thought, this issue is discussed that what factors affected them and how they articulated a new order as nationalism which after some years was known as the dominant discourse in Iran.