The Concept of Citizenship and its Stages of Development “A theoretical study of the concept of citizenship in different stages of history”

Citizenship is one of the concepts that have crossed more than one historical stage, that is, it was not created in a specific circumstance and date, so we are trying through this research to answer this question: What are the stages of the emergence and development of the concept of citizenship? Our goal in this study is to present the different conditions and understandings of the concept of citizenship according to the era. The study emphasizes the diversity of viewpoints and types of societies, so that the direction of understanding is not limited to a specific context, and other historical contributions are ignored. In the introduction to this research, we presented the general framework of the study (problem, goal, importance), while using the (historical- descriptive) approach. In general, our research is divided into two parts, and each section contains a set of points. The research reached a set of results.