Learned Council

The Learned Council[2] (Persian: هیئت علمیه‎, romanized: Heyʿat-e Elmīyeh) was a political group of clerics in the 3rd Parliament, led by Hassan Modarres.[1]

Learned Council
Chamber	Iranian Parliament
Legislature(s)	3rd
Foundation	1914
Dissolution	1915
Leader	Hassan Modarres
Representation	17 / 115 (15%)
Ideology	Conservatism[1]

According to Touraj Daryaee, it did not consider itself a party and was a group of "hardline rightists partiularly opposed to the Democrats".[3] The group opposed the policy of centralization advocated by the government, secularization of penal code, property tax, conscription and women's suffrage.[3][2]

References

1. Enayat, Hadi (2013). "Chapter 3". Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy, and Legal Reform, 1906-1941. Springer. ISBN 1137282029.
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.
3. Daryaee, Touraj (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History. Oxford Handbooks in History. Oxford University Press. pp. 340–341. ISBN 0199732159.