Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Sociological Thoughts of Ahmad Ashraf About the Underdevelopment of Iran

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Author

N. Sedghi

Associate professor of history, Faculty of law and social science, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22035/isih.2018.295
Abstract
The central issue of Ashraf in reviewing Iran's history is to explain the historical obstacles of the formation of the capitalist system of the bourgeoisie and civil society. Ashraf to Description of the above problem has used the concepts of "Asian system" and "feudal system" in Marx's thoughts, and the concepts of “Patrimonialism” and “the Oriental City” in the sociology of Max Weber. As he has used the native concept of the "Muluk-al-Tawaiifi” to analyze some of the characteristics of the social and political life of the nomadic societies and their effects on social and political life of Iran. Ashraf, one of the representatives of the discourse of democratic and capitalist development pattern based on the role of the middle class or bourgeoisie. Ashraf's views on the historical barriers of Iranian society development are remarkable at three levels of political, social and economic interconnectedness. The dominance of Asian systems and the patrimonial and the Muluk al-Tawaiifi in the political arena, Nomadic, rural, and urban community associations in the social arena And the unity of the methods of agricultural production and handicrafts were the factors that Ashraf has raised as historical obstacles to the realization of feudalism and the growth of "national capitalism" in Iranian history.

Keywords

Key words: Ahmad Ashraf
bourgeoisie
capitalism
underdevelopment
Iran

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