Analysis of thematic networks of Qanon Newspaper: Reforming Iran with "Jamee Adamiyat"

Document Type : Research Paper

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Sociology Department, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

10.22059/ijsp.2025.399189.671332

Abstract

Mirza Malik Khan's "Qanon Newspaper" is known as one of the most important works of the Constitutional Revolution. In a way, many intellectuals have referred to its cognition in the activities of the Constitutional Revolution. What social changes from the pre-constitutional period to the post-constitutional period have occurred through which thematic cognition, the study of the scientific "Qanon newspaper" should show. For this purpose, using the Atride-Stirling "Thematic Network Analysis" method, all the thematic networks of this newspaper were discovered, described and interpreted. The findings show that the "Qanon newspaper" has 108 basic themes, 19 organizing themes and 4 global themes. The global themes of "Iran: The most central concern", "Government: The sanctification of the monarchy and the destruction of the state", "Law-seeking: The importance of demand", and "Adamiyat: The combination of doctrine and politics" each formed a thematic network. In addition, combining the advanced version of the Atride-Stirling method, with and deducing from the above 4 global themes, a super-global theme "Iran's reform with the "Jamee Adamiyat"" was discovered and interpreted. The research results also show that, with this name of the newspaper, the law(Qanon) is and the constitution is its content, but the network of main themes in the newspaper is formed around the "Jamee Adamiyat". And the law is only one of the thematic aspects of this "Jamee". "Jamee Adamiyat" is also the main proposed path for reforming Iran, which is from moral and behavioral teachings with directional political actions in accordance with the "principles of Adamiyat".

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