Document Type : Review Article

Authors

• Jahanbakhsh Savagheb
• Farideh Morovati
• Shahab Shahidani

Lorestan University

Abstract

The long reign of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar (1848-1896) has been accompanied by numerous uprisings that took place in different natures and in the form of individual movements to collective and widespread actions in the country. The main actors in these uprisings ranged from the social masses to government and religious leaders. The purpose of this article is to characterize the uprisings of the Nasserite era and to study the bedrock factors of these uprisings in a descriptive-analytical method based on library information. The findings show that the riots of this period with multiple nature of political (dynastic), tribal, religious (sectarian) and socio-economic (urban and rural areas) on the basis of dissatisfaction with the existing political structure and social relations, power-seeking And the political intentions of some activists and the intervention of foreign interventionist governments in Iran have been formed, and despite creating some instability and fragility in the Nasserite government, they have often failed without achieving a specific result.

Keywords

• Nasserite era
• Princely revolts
• Tribal revolts
• Urban revolts
• Sectarian revolts