Promotion of Domestic Goods and Textiles in Mashhad in the Late Qajar Era (1895–1925): From Idea to Practice

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10.30465/ehs.2025.52534.2052
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From the mid-Qajar period, Iranian-made textiles faced serious challenges in competition with imported European fabrics, and local products were gradually replaced by foreign textiles. Supporting national goods became one of the strategies for sustaining domestic production. this concept emerged as an idea and later materialized in practice through the establishment of various companies and associations aimed at promoting the consumption of domestic textiles in Mashhad.

no research has been conducted in this area so far and the measures and approaches to support of domestic goods, the results achieved, and the reasons their failure have not been identified. the present study aims to explore the ideas and practical actions taken to support domestic goods. The findings show that, influenced by the activities of the Eslamiyeh Company, the book Lebas al-Taqwa, the speeches of Haj Seyyed Mohammad Aqa, and the promotional efforts of the Adab newspaper, support for domestic products began. After the Constitutional Revolution, this movement gained further attention within associations such as the Esna Ashari Association, the Sa'adat Association, as well as in the poems of Esmail Khoyi. Later in the newspaper Fekr-e Azad and the fatwa of Mirza Reza Damghani also influenced support for the consumption of domestic textiles.

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