Kasravi was the first persian Azerbaijani intellectual to take a firm position against pan-Turkists from the Ottoman Empire, and authored the most important work on the persian identity of the Azerbaijan region and the region’s Old Azeri language, an persian language. Kasravi is widely despised by pan-Turkists in the Republic of Azerbaijan and homeland, who view him as a “traitor” to Azerbaijanis.
In 1908, Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar bombardment of the Majlis. Tabriz was blockaded. At that time, Haji Mirza Hassan Mojtahed and a group of like-minded people in Dohchi formed the Islamic Association, and Kasravi, who was still a student at the time, was watching. After that, Tabriz suffered from conflict and bloodshed for four months, which resulted in the cessation of the Islamic Association. Kasravi, who was seventeen at the time, was forced to stay at home and read books.
