An international symposium on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution will be held in Teheran, Iran, in August 1999. It will be hosted by The Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies. Lectures will be presented in Persian, English, and Japanese.

Topics will include:

-Iran's cultural, political and social situation on the threshold of the Constitutional Revolution

-The cultural, political and social situation of the West on the threshold of the Constitutional Revolution

-The origins of the Constitutional thoughts and legitimism -Shi'ism and Constitution

-The role of institutions and secret societies in the Constitutional Revolution

-The role of the press in Constitutional changes

-The Constitution in the Qajar Court

-The role of Caucasian immigrants in the Constitutional Revolution

-The Constitutional Revolution and Great Britain

-The Constitutional Revolution and the Ottoman Empire

-The influence of the Constitutional Revolution on the literature

Further questions may be addressed to:

The Program Committee

128. Fayyazi (Fereshteh) Ave., Elahieh, Tehran 19649, Iran P.O. Box 19395-1975

Tel: +98-21 2005425 & 2003490 Fax: +98-21 262096

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