One Word - Yak Kaleme : 19th-Century Persian Treatise introducing Western Codified Law

Abstract

Iranian Studies Series The Iranian Studies Series publishes high-quality scholarship on various aspects of Iranian civilisation, covering both contemporary and classical cultures of the Persian cultural area. The contemporary Persian-speaking area includes Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Central Asia, while classical societies using Persian as a literary and cultural language were located in Anatolia, Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent. The objective of the series is to foster studies of the literary, historical, religious and linguistic products in Iranian languages. In addition to research monographs and reference works, the series publishes English-Persian critical text-editions of important texts. The series intends to publish resources and original research and make them accessible to a wide audience.

Law, society, and the anthropology of noncontemporaneous contemporary

“…It was qanun ("law," "code"). Mustashar al-Dowleh was born in Tabriz on the border of the Russian and Ottoman empires and had an early Quranic education (Mehrdad Kia 1994;Seyed-Gohrab and McGlinn 2010;Tabatabai 2013aTabatabai , 2013b. He had an intimate knowledge of the emerging nation's social and political crises, including the lack of medical, transportation, and military technologies and its general subjugation and territorial concessions to Russia in the north and to the British in India to the east.…”