The Impact of Nasser al-din shah's Personality Characteristics on Iran's Underdevelopment

Abstract

Being Familiar with Naseri era, due to it’s concurrency with the emerge of new civilization in west also the transition period of Iran moving to modern era is of a great importance. This article has been seeking the roots in the lack of forming the neccessary struchures for modernization and subsequent human developments in Iranian society of the Haseriera.Recogniting the personality traits of NaserAl-Dinshah, due toth. Personalization of politics during that period it has helped to find the roots of the factors influencing the subject matter. Researcher whitphenomemology method has analyzed Naser AlDinshah’s character and it’s influence on his political behavior based on Abraham Maslow’s theory;and aswell analyzed the reflection ofking’s decisions on Iranian society based on Inglehart’s post-modernization theory,andthefactors influencinghuman underdevelopment in IranThe hypothesis of this research is that life environment of Qajar court were a barrier to NaserAl-Dinshah’s basic needsand coused his tyrant character to be shaped.The longterm reign of NaserAl-Dinshah led to his influence on all aspects of socity, so politics and government were fully influenced by the king’s personality traits in that period.The person who,due to various short comings and mistalcen decision, was an obstacle to modernization in the country,and as a result, he mode human development in Iranian culture in Naseri era concealed.

Keywords

• naser al-din shah’s character
• naser al-din shah’s decisions
• naseri era
• modernization
• human development in iran