Sociological Cultural Studies

Sociological Cultural Studies

The Constitutional Revolution and the Formation of the National State: A Reexamination of the Construction Process of Iran’s New Political Identity in Light of Anderson’s and Hobsbawm’s Theories

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Author
ali azarmi
guilan
10.30465/scs.2026.54513.3147
Abstract
The present article, focusing on the Constitutional Revolution as an ontological turning point in Iran’s modern history, reexamines the process of the formation of the national state and the construction of a new political identity in light of the theories of Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm.



The central question of this study is how the Constitutional Revolution, as both a discursive and historical event, contributed to the construction of the modern political subject and the emergence of a new national identity, and how this process can be explained through the aforementioned theoretical frameworks.



The Constitutional Revolution can be regarded as the birth of a new architecture of identity—an architecture in which “collective imagination” and “invented traditions” were not two separate constructs, but rather two interwoven and dialectically related dimensions that found meaning tnd, intellectual and political elites, through the selective reinterpretation of historical symbols and narratives, invented new national rituals and political ceremonies that consolidated the legitimacy of emerging institutions and institutionalized a sense of belonging to a collective “we.”
Keywords
Political identity
experience of the social world
imagination
tradition
nation-state
Constitutional Revolution
Sociological Cultural Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 10 June 2026

  • Receive Date 01 May 2026
  • Revise Date 09 June 2026
  • Accept Date 10 June 2026
  • Publish Date 10 June 2026