| Bazaar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (564 words) |
 | The Pahlavi dynasty viewed the bazaar as an impediment to the modern society that they wished to create and sought to enact policies that would erode the bazaar's importance. |
| They were aware that the alliance of the mercantile and artisan forces in the bazaar with the Shia and Islamic fundamentalist clergy posed a serious threat to Imperial government, as occurred in 1890 and again during the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-07. |
| The emergence of such an alliance in the period from 1923 to 1924 is believed by many scholars to have convinced Reza Shah not to establish a republic, as Ataturk had done in Turkey, but to establish a new dynasty based upon his family. |
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