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This article is to analyze the tendency of Mirza Fath’ali Akhoondzadeh to freemasonic circle, his relations to the members of Mirza Malkam khan’s freemasonry center and his playwriting on the basis of such relations. Initially, his tendency to freemasonic cycles in Tbilisi and his relations to Malkam khan’s freemasonry center have been proved and his common intellectual elements with Malkom Khan Freemasonry center and its members are being pointed out; and finally, the position of play in his opinion has been explained. It has been shown how his selection of playwriting was compatible with his freemasonic thoughts. So his play “The story of Monsieur Jordan, the herbalist physician and Dervish Most’ali-shah known as magician” has been scrutinized and its freemasonry thoughts have been reflected. Monsieur Jordan, in this play, is the representative of an intellectual insight which belonged to Akhoondzadeh and his colleagues in freemasonry center. Shahbaz-Beyk, a young scholar who loves to get Europe, is an example of educated people of Akhoondzadeh’s period who were insisted to take advantage of European sciences. At the other side, Dervish Most’ali-shah and female characters, who obviously represent the eastern culture, are symbols of undeveloped and irrational world from the point of Akhoondzade’s view.
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