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Defunct political party in Qajar Iran
The
Learned Council
[3]
(
Persian
:
???? ?????
,
romanized
:
Hey?at-e Elm?yeh
) was a
political group
of
clerics
in the
3rd Parliament
, led by
Hassan Modarres
.
[1]
According to
Touraj Daryaee
, it did not consider itself a
party
and was a group of "hardline
rightists
particularly opposed to the
Democrats
".
[2]
The group opposed the policy of centralization advocated by the government,
secularization
of penal code,
property tax
,
conscription
and
women's suffrage
.
[2]
[3]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
a
b
Enayat, Hadi (2013). "Chapter 3".
Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy, and Legal Reform, 1906-1941
.
Springer
.
ISBN
978-1137282026
.
- ^
a
b
c
Daryaee, Touraj
(2012).
The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
. Oxford Handbooks in History.
Oxford University Press
. pp.
340
?341.
ISBN
978-0199732159
.
- ^
a
b
Amin, Camron Michael (2002).
The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865-1946
.
University Press of Florida
. pp.
38
?40.
ISBN
0813031265
.
