Andīshah-i iṣlāḥ-i dīn dar Īrān: muqaddamah-’i tārīkhī

This multi-volume study by Sayyid Miqdād Nabavī Raz̤avī, published in Tihrān by Shīrāzah-yi Kitāb-i Mā, offers a critical historical analysis of the movement for religious reform (iṣlāḥ-i dīn) in Īrān. Spanning the Qājār and Pahlavī eras, the work explores the intersection of political activism and theological revisionism. Nabavī Raz̤avī argues that many figures traditionally viewed as Islamic modernists, such as Hādī Najm Ābādī and Sayyid Asad Allāh Kharqānī, were deeply influenced by esoteric Bābī and Azalī thought. The text traces this intellectual lineage through the Constitutional Revolution to the era of Riz̤ā Shāh, culminating in the Salafī-aligned preaching of Sharī‘at Sangalajī. By examining primary sources and unpublished documents, the author seeks to reconstruct the hidden history of dissent that sought to purge Shī‘īsm of perceived superstitions and clerical dominance.