Quarterly Journal of Political
Research in Islamic World

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Beginning with the late 19th century Iran underwent a great deal of transformation. Central to this transformation was the change from a decentralized monarchy to the modem nation state and the development of an official Iranian nationalism under Reza Shah. Nationalism was the main axes of the first Pahlavi era that was followed by using the Persian language and ethnicity, paying attention to the historical past and relying on the antiquity were of its manifestations the result of which was crystallized in the homeland patriotism. In this age of homeland, close bond component was king worship and archaism. Reza Shah's government, by leading the intellectuals sought to replace Imperial ideology of nationalism with the Iranian and Islamic culture and rests the legitimacy of his regime on it. One of the features and characteristics of the Pahlavi regime was the emphasis on the idea of nationalist glory and honor of the Zoroastrian religion of pre-Islamic Iran and the Persian language worshiped  by that time.This article aims at the crystallization phenomenon of nationalism and ethnicity importance of convergence in the approach of the Iranian in the Pahlavi era and investigated the implications and intentions of the founders approach

Keywords: Ancient Nationalism, Pahlavi Regime, Islam, Ideology, the West

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