Learned Council

Learned Council
ChamberIranian Parliament
Legislature(s)3rd
Foundation1914
Dissolution1915
LeaderHassan Modarres
Representation
17 / 115 (15%)
IdeologyConservatism
Political positionRight-wing

The Learned Council (Persian: هیئت علمیه, romanized: Heyʿat-e Elmīyeh) was a political group of clerics in the 3rd Parliament, led by Hassan Modarres.

According to Touraj Daryaee, it did not consider itself a party and was a group of "hardline rightists particularly opposed to the Democrats". The group opposed the policy of centralization advocated by the government, secularization of penal code, property tax, conscription and women's suffrage.

References

  1. 1 2 Enayat, Hadi (2013). "Chapter 3". Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy, and Legal Reform, 1906-1941. Springer. ISBN 978-1137282026.
  2. 1 2 3 Daryaee, Touraj (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History. Oxford Handbooks in History. Oxford University Press. pp. 340–341. ISBN 978-0199732159.
  3. 1 2 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.