The model of knowing and categorizing political thoughts in Iran

One of the metods to identify and analyze political thougths is to categorize them. The fluidity of thought and the transition from different and sometimes contradictory periods and stages make it difficult to classify them. Numerous categories of political thougths in the last two hundred years have been presented in Iran, all of which have based on micro-criteria in their category. Therefore, the problem of the article is to know the macro-intellectual geography of thougths and their relationship with each other. The main question of the article is what more complete model can be provided for the categorization of political thougths that makes it possible to understand the micro and macro dimensions of them in a long period of time. This article, considering the research method of "Grounded theory", first has a brief look at the categories made so far and states the criteria and patterns of these categories. The achievement of the article is to provide a model of "cluster categorization" to identify political ideas. This model uses three levels of external analysis, internal analysis, and proportionality, and rooted political thougths in terms of flow, discourse, and paradigm. At the level of external analysis, it sees thougths in the macro-intellectual geography of a society or civilization.