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A review on the oral history of “the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Truth”:
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A division of a memoire concerning with the challenging in Mashhad
After Ŝahrivar 1320 (Sep. 1941), Iran was turned to a rivalry field in the course of ideological thoughts and beliefs through creating a liberty political space. Through conflicting the tradition and the modernity, there was emerged a newborn event in which was constancy by following the Shia. Although, it was gotten its construction by tradition; on other hand, it was shaped by a modern framework to reply the daily issues. In spite of linkage to tradition and modernity via Center, it caused to controversy subjects because of the lack of being conditioned to both.
In actuality, these contests were so clearly visible in Mashhad. In this regard, there was founded the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Truth (Islamic Truth Exploration Center; Kanoon-e Nashr-e Haghayegh-e Eslami) in which religious eminent and outstanding persons and scholars who were effective people for the future of the country entered to this rivalry field.
In this research, concerning with this historical debated subject, there are categorized the narrators based on different types.
The first narrators are not the members of the Center. Among them, there are only a few persons who declare the practical and advantageous narrations about actual state of affairs in Khorasan province. The second narrators were familiar with and interested to Mohammad Taqi Shariati’s thoughts and ideas. By aiding these narrators, there are investigated the steps of organizing the Center, its construction and other cultural activities in the 1320s (1940s). The final speech of the second type is considered to various narrations by clergies.
In addition, there are faced with third narrators by entering the Center to political stage because of the development of media. In this time, the presentation of the young people in the name of the Students' Association became emergence. Diversity of the narrators is provided the possibility to investigate the Center’s political movements in the proceeding the Oil Nationalization Movement (of the 1950s) through different dimensions.
The fourth narrators because of the actions of the members in political parties and secret concernments in relation with National Resistance Movement, Socialists Movement, etc., the students’ different narrations were cited by young narrators with numerous and various parties’ beliefs.
Besides the above categories, the Shariati’s relatives are another group who were close to his thoughts. Therefore, there can be possible to access to his activities in special positions by them. In spite of the importance of this subject, this research is the first comprehensive report about the history of the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Truth.
However, there are written various books and papers about Mohammad Taqi Shariati’s character and biography and other scholars while there is not an inclusive research about the Center up to now.
In the first step of this research, there is a great effort to pay attention how the various ideological beliefs were emerged in Iran concisely and in Mashhad with highly-precision; and also, after introducing the parties, groups and other thoughts in Mashhad, there is investigated how the Center was constituted.
Parvin Mansuri
Translated by: Farah Jafarkhan (Adipen)
Source:
http://javanonline.ir/fa/news/701058
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