DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2014.v02i03.001

Pages: 377-381

The main aim in this article is to deal with the origin and development of the party system’s beginnings. The nature of the party as a general phenomenon, in order to set our discussion of the background to the development of parties in Iran in a comprehensible context. The party system within Iran had its origins in a series of prototype parties – the dawra, Band, Parti Bazi – which subsequently developed into the more structured anjuman, during the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11. The nature of the material resources used in this research has a crucial bearing on the value and reliability of academic work in this particular field. The critiques offered here of preceding scholars hinges upon the limitations of their sources, and the contribution I hope to have made in this area depends upon a fuller and deeper exploration of all available literature and of previously unutilized oral information.