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ده سال در عدلیه

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143 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1945

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Aḥmad Kasravī
Born in Hokmabad (Hohmavar), Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azari. Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Later, he joined the Persian Constitutional Revolution. He experienced a sort of conversion to Western learning when he learned that the comet of 1910 had been identified as a reappearance of Halley's comet. He abandoned his clerical training after this event and enrolled in the American Memorial School of Tabriz. Thenceforward he became, in Roy Mottahedeh's words, "a true anti-cleric."

It was in Tbilisi where he first became acquainted with a wide spectrum of political ideas and movements, and he soon was employed by the government of Iran in various cultural posts.

A prolific writer, Kasravi was very critical of both the Shi'a clergy and of the policies of the central government. He had liberal views on religion, was a strong supporter of democracy, and expressed them in satirical pamphlets like What Is the Religion of the Hajis with Warehouses? that infuriated many readers. His views earned him many powerful enemies such as Ayatollah Khomeini.

His detailed account of the Constitutional Revolution still stands out as one of the most important sources on the events, even though Kasravi was a teenager at the time of the revolution and cannot claim the full authority of a contemporary witness that his writing at times suggests.

Kasravi is known for his solid research work on the ancient Azari language and origin of the Azerbaijani people. He showed that the ancient Azari language was an offshoot of Pahlavi language. Due to this discovery, he was granted the membership of London Royal Asiatic Society and American Academy.

Arguing that ancient Azari language had been closely related to Persian language and the influx of Turkic words began only with the Seljuq invasion, Ahmad Kasravi believed that true national language of Iranian Azerbaijan was Persian and therefore advocated the linguistic assimilation of Persian in Azarbaijan.

In 1927-8 Ahmad Kasravi led the way in establishing the ancestry of the Safavids dynasty with the publication of three influential articles and disputed the validity of the `official' Safavid family tree contained in the Safvat al-Safa, and argued convincingly that the ancestors of Shaykh Safi al-Din, who founded the Safavid Order (tariqa), were indigenous inhabitants of Iran and were of pure Aryan stock. Today, the consensus among Safavid historians is that the Safavid family hailed from Persian Kurdistan.
On March 11, 1946, while being tried on charges of "slander against Islam," Kasravi and one of his assistants were knifed and killed in open court in Tehran by followers of Navvab Safavi, a Shi'a extremist cleric who had founded a terrorist organization called the Fadayan-e Islam (literally Devotees of Islam). The same group had failed in assassinating Kasravi earlier in April 1945 in Tehran. Ayatollah Borujerdi and Ayatollah Sadr[who?:] issued fatwas for killing Ahmad Kasravi

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January 6, 2021
این کتاب دوره دوم زندگی شادروان کسروی رو در بر میگیره که بیشترش همزمان با قدرت گرفتن رضا خان و مدرن شدن ایران هست. جذاب ترین بخش کتاب وقتیه که خاطرات مربوط به ریاست عدلیه در خوزستان رو بیان میکنه. این دوره مصادف هست با حکمرانی شیخ خزعل و شادروان کسروی تقریبا تمام ماجرای فروپاشی دستگاه حکومت شیخ خزعل به دست سردار سپه رو از نزدیک دیده و روایت کرده. به نظر میاد تمامی روشنفکران و آزادی خواهان اون زمان در ابتدا از قدرت گرفتن سردار سپه و فتوحاتش بر ناآرامی های محلی راضی بودن ولی بعد از این که قاجاریه بر افتاد و مشخص شد رضا شاه به قانون اساسی و مجلس مشروطه توجهی نمیکنه از او دلسرد شدن. احمد کسروی هم از این قاعده مستثنی نبود و چون به مشروطه دلبستگی بسیاری داشت و همچنین در خوزستان پس از جنگ شاهد چپاول مردم به دست نظامیان منصوب شاه بود اندکی دید انتقادی نسبت به حکومت پهلوی پیدا کرد. از نزدیکان رضا شاه هم از تیمورتاش و داور حرف بسیار هست و اگرچه همیشه از تیمورتاش به نیکی یاد میشه اما انتقادات زیادی رو به داور وارد کرده.
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January 23, 2021
این کتاب رو میشه همراه با چرا از عدلیه بیرون آمدم به عنوان ضمیمه‌ی خودزندگی‌نامه‌ی کسروی در نظر گرفت. بخش اصلی کتاب که شاید ارزش تاریخی خوبی داشته باشه سر و کله زدن کسروی به عنوان رییس عدلیه خوزستان و شیخ خزعل هست. تصویر کسروی از خودش در این کتاب مردی باج‌نده، سمج و عادله. کسروی به کارنامه‌ی عدلیه خودش افتخار و مباهات می‌کنه و میشه از دل این کتاب فهمید که چرا
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September 20, 2018
در این کتاب من ناچار بوده ام کارهای نیک خود را بستایم. خواسته ام پیشامدهایی را که به بیرون آمدن از عدلیه انجامید نیک باز نمایم. این مرا ناچار گردانیده که کارها و سرگذشتهای خود را چنانکه بوده برشته نوشتن کشم. باشد که کسانی پندارند که چون نویسنده خودم بوده ام چیزهایی افزوده و یا بداستان رنگ و روی فزونتر داده ام. می باید بگویم بوارونه آن کار کرده ام. چون نویسنده خودم بوده ام برای آنکه خودستایی نباشد چیزهایی را کاسته ام و در ستودن هر داستانی کوشیده ام که رنگ و رویش کمتر باشد که فزونتر نباشد . بسیاری از داستانها را ناگفته گزارده ام.
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به تنهایی و در زمان کوتاه هم می‌شود دگرگونی بوجود آورد. می‌شود فعال بود می‌شود کوشید و چیزهایی به جهان افزود.
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