Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran: An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the historiography of ideas by taking into consideration cultural, linguistic, and socio-political limitations and obstacles to free thinking in closed societies.

The research shows how most locutions about freedom, uttered during early modern Iran, wer...