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Authors

• Freshteh Akbarian ¹
• Abdolrahman Hassanifar ²
• Mohammadsalar Kasraie ³

¹ PhD student of political science, Eslamic Azad univesityn, Semnan branch ,Semnan , Iran

² Associated Professor of History, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran

³ Associated professor of social science, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Dealing with "people" in a new meaning that indicates their important position and role in the political and social arena with the beginning of constitutionalism and can be seen clearly in the opinions of prominent thinkers such as Naini. This emergence and manifestation of thought in a new format In a way, it is considered to be in the relationship with the modern world. But the issue that exists about Naini in general and his opinion about the position of people in particular are two different views; the first view considers Naini as a thinker whose views are He considers the role and position of people to be the same as the modern world; And the second point of view considers Naini as a religious scholar of new thinking, who based on the principles and foundations of thought in Iran (Iranian-Shiite Islam), according to the conditions and requirements of the time, proposed a new idea about the role and position of the people. In the first point of view He understood the modern world and in the second point of view it is just an alignment and he did not understand the essence of the modern era. In this article, the ratio of Naini's opinions about the people with the principles and foundations of the modern state is investigated using a descriptive-analytical method.

Keywords

• Mohammad Hossein Naini
• People
• political thinking
• modern government
• New religious thinking