Document Type : Scientific-Research
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1 Ph.D. candidate in history of Islamic Iran, Department of History, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor Department of History, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
3 Associate Professor, Department of History,faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Razi University Kermanshah, Iran
Abstract
Petitions can be classified as one of the most important documents that directly deal with issues and social life, because they include issues and cases that are of concern to the people involved and they could not resolve these issues by referring to the official courts. This article has been written with the aim of understanding the concerns and urban issues of Kermanshahs in the constitutional era, relying only on popular complaints. In other words, this research sought to know the issues and problems of the urban society that people have been trying to solve and address through petitions. This research, using the method of content analysis, read and examined the documents of the petitions of this period and answered the question, what issues did the people as the lower class demand from the upper authorities (Faradistan) through the petitions? And to what extent was their demand? The results of this research indicate that the demands of the urban society of Kermanshah during the constitutional era were requests and petitions in different areas (social, political, economic and cultural) of the society and had a high variety of topics. On the other hand, this diversity has shown a degree of freedom that the activists even complained to government officials and were not afraid to express their demands.
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