At the same time, Foroughi founded the office (secretariat) of the parliament at the invitation of Sani al-Dawlah (the first chairman of the National Assembly) and was a member of assemblies such as Jame Adamit. After the cessation of the activities of the Adamite community and the death of Malek Khan, Foroughi and a number of other Iranians and Frenchmen living in Tehran formed the official lodge of Freemasonry in 1326.
The collected essays of Mohammad Ali Foroughi not only present a portrait of the multifaceted and complex character of one of the most influential cultural, academic, and political figures of modern Iran, but also depict the cultural issues and political and social conditions of the country during the turbulent years of Foroughi’s cultural and political life—from the first Constitutional Assembly to the early years of the reign of the second Pahlavi. Mohammad Ali Foroughi was among the most brilliant figures of a generation of Iranian scholars, historians, men of letters, and researchers who emerged from the Constitutional Revolution. During the tumultuous years of that revolution, World War I, and throughout the two-decade reign of the first Pahlavi monarch, they published their works and were so rich and creative in their fields that, apart from perhaps one or two exceptions, no one in later generations managed to take their place.
