Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi, later known as Ahmad Kasravi, was a pre-eminent Iranian linguist, nationalist, religious reformer, historian and former Shia cleric.
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Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi, later known as Ahmad Kasravi, was a pre-eminent Iranian linguist, nationalist, religious reformer, historian and former Shia cleric.
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Ahmad Kasravi deserted his clerical training after this event and enrolled in the American Memorial School of Tabriz.
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Ahmad Kasravi was the founder of a political-social movement whose goal was to build an Iranian secular identity.
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Ahmad Kasravi authored more than 70 books, mostly in the Persian language.
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Ahmad Kasravi was born on Wednesday, 29 September 1890, in the Hokmavar neighborhood of Tabriz.
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Ahmad Kasravi's family admired him as the first son of their family.
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Ahmad Kasravi's mother prevented him from playing with other peers.
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Nevertheless, Ahmad Kasravi was a leader in learning, comparing himself to his peers, and he learned many things with his own efforts and with the help of his family.
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Ahmad Kasravi's father died at the age of 12 and he returned to religious school and continued it according to his father's will.
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In that school, Ahmad Kasravi first studied in the school with a man named Mullah Hassan.
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Ahmad Kasravi first met Sheikh Mohammad Khayabani, who taught Ptolemy, at the same school in Talebia.
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In 1904, at the same time as the beginning of the Persian Constitutional Revolution in Tabriz, Ahmad Kasravi first came across the name of the constitution and, according to him, he was dedicated to the constitution from the very beginning.
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Ahmad Kasravi's leaning towards the constitution and the opposition of this cleric and Mir Mohsen Agha to the constitution increased his enmity.
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Therefore, Ahmad Kasravi stopped learning from him, and as a result, his family guardian resented Ahmad Kasravi and changed his attitude towards him.
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Ahmad Kasravi, who was seventeen at the time, was forced to stay at home and read books.
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Ahmad Kasravi suffered from anemia and his eyes became dim and he suffered from indigestion.
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Ahmad Kasravi was not satisfied with this and tried to join the fighters with several rifles; But the war did not last more than four days and the Mujahideen left the city and the Russians conquered Tabriz and appointed Samad Khan, one of the long-time enemies of the Constitution, over the city.
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Ahmad Kasravi was forced to visit Samad Khan in Bagh-e Amir under the pressure of Haji Mir Mohsen Agha, Guardian their family.
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Ahmad Kasravi met Reza Soltanzadeh, who said that this friendship was lasting and lasted until the last years of Kasravi's life.
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Ahmad Kasravi was offered to weave socks and he bought a sock machine, but the machine was unhealthy and Ahmad Kasravi returned it the seller did not return his advance payment.
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Ahmad Kasravi bought another sock weaving machine, but this one got into trouble and he lost it.
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Ahmad Kasravi, who had failed to provide a career and had sold his books, became very depressed.
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Ahmad Kasravi was interested in three disciplines: mathematics, history and Arabic, and he spent his time learning and reading these.
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Ahmad Kasravi, who suffers from unemployment, accepted the offer and taught Arabic to The students who studied English themselves.
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Nevertheless, Ahmad Kasravi calls Mr Chesp a righteous man who was far from religious.
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Between 1915 and 1916, Ahmad Kasravi, who was familiar with Baha'i history and beliefs, had discussions with the preachers of this religion.
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On his return, the enmity between Muslims and Armenians increased, and Ahmad Kasravi had verbal confrontations with them until one day when he left school, several Armenian students followed him and dragged his cloak away.
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However, in his biography, Ahmad Kasravi has expressed his remorse for being so big against a man who was eighteen or seventeen years older than him.
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Ahmad Kasravi went to the British Consulate in Tabriz and met with Major Edmund.
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At that time, Ahmad Kasravi had returned to Tabriz, but he and his friends were under pressure and threats.
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Ahmad Kasravi was eventually accepted to teach Arabic at Servat High School.
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Meetings were held in Tehran and Ahmad Kasravi was asked to fight in the streets, but Ahmad Kasravi refrained from doing so.
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Meanwhile, Mukhbar al-Saltanah, who had just become the governor of Azerbaijan, asked Ahmad Kasravi to join him in quelling the street uprising, but Ahmad Kasravi refused.
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Meanwhile, Ahmad Kasravi had not yet brought his family to Tehran and did not have enough money to do so.
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Inevitably, Ahmad Kasravi left his books to his brother to open a library and not be unemployed.
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Ahmad Kasravi enjoyed life in Mazandaran, where he studied the Mazandaran language and studied.
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Ahmad Kasravi stayed in Tehran for two months and spent this time researching the history of Mazandaran and writing notes on the history of Tabarestan in the weekly Nobahar and researching Ibn Esfandiar's manuscript and comparing it with foreign manuscripts, which he considered the beginning of his writing life.
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Ahmad Kasravi researched events related to the Babi movement in Zanjan, which later helped him write a book on Baha'ism.
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Ahmad Kasravi went to Qazvin with his family and stayed there for a month, where he learned about Tahirih.
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Ahmad Kasravi set conditions for the acceptance of Khuzestan, and when he was accepted, Ahmad Kasravi agreed to go to Khuzestan.
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Sardar Sepah entrusted Ahmad Kasravi to establish a judiciary that would be superior to the British judiciary on the other side of the Arvand River.
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Ahmad Kasravi was surprised by the lack of interest in this city and its small size.
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Ahmad Kasravi knew that not all Arabs have a good relationship with Sheikh Khazal.
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Proponent of reform in Islam, he was respected for his deep knowledge of the religion, as "even his orthodox opponents admit that Kasravi was an able theologian and regard his Shari'ate Ahmadi as the best book on the fundamentals of Islam and Shi'ism of his time", and, like Dr Ali Shariati some three decades later, Kasravi considered that there were two kinds of Islam:.
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Ahmad Kasravi was particularly critical of Shia and Sufism, to which he ascribed many ills, from its supposed promotion of stagnation, "irrationality" or even being a tool of the Orientalists.
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Abbas Amanat, professor of history at Yale University, believes that Ahmad Kasravi's work regarding the Baha'i called Bahaigari is "a short polemic of little historical value".
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Ahmad Kasravi further explains "in his criticism of the Bab, he hardly takes into account the historical circumstances under which the movement first appeared and his pontifical judgements no doubt are influenced by his own vision of pakdini".
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Kasravi's "views threatened both modernist intellectuals and the traditionalist cleric class, not only because of his vision of religion, but due to his critical stance on secularism and the fact that he was "the first Iranian to criticize modernism and Eurocentrism before Al-e Ahmad coined the term 'Weststruckness' and made it a genre.
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Ahmad Kasravi is known for his solid and controversial research work on the ancient Azari language.
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Ahmad Kasravi showed that the ancient Azari language was an offshoot of Pahlavi language.
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