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Author Enayat, Hadi

Title Law, state, and society in modern Iran : constitutionalism, autocracy, and legal reform, 1906-1941 / by Hadi Enayat
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

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Contents Law, state, and society in nineteenth century Iran -- Law and justice in the Mashrutiyat : 1891-1911 -- The struggle to establish new laws and institutions, 1911-1926 -- The reforms of Ali Akbar Davar and beyond, 1926-1941 -- The new legal institutions in practice : 1906-1941
Summary Incorporating history, sociology, and rule of law studies, this book sheds light on an understudied but fascinating dimension of modernization in Iran, namely the emergence of a new legal system between the 1906 Constitutional Revolution and the end of Reza Shah's rule in 1941. While Iranian constitutionalism can be seen as part of a global trend of constitutional revolutions at the turn of the twentieth century, in Iran, an unusual institutional and historical background shaped a path to legal reform that was in many ways unique. Among other factors, the scholastic legalism of the Shi'i ulama and the considerable autonomy they enjoyed in administering the civil law in the nineteenth century made legal reform a particularly contested, difficult, and politically charged aspect of state building
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Subject Dāvar, ʻAlī Akbar, 1885 or 1886-1937.
SUBJECT Dāvar, ʻAlī Akbar, 1885 or 1886-1937 fast
Subject Justice, Administration of -- Iran -- History
Judicial power -- Iran -- History
Courts -- Iran -- History
Rule of law -- Iran -- History
Constitutional history -- Iran
Nation-building -- Iran -- History
Law reform -- Iran -- History
Despotism -- Iran -- History
Legal history -- Iran.
Constitution: government & the state -- Iran.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Constitutional history
Courts
Despotism
Judicial power
Justice, Administration of
Law reform
Nation-building
Rule of law
Legal history -- Iran.
Constitution: government & the state -- Iran.
Law.
Iran
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137282026
1137282029
9781349448449
1349448443