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Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran

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Constitutionalism, Autocracy, and Legal Reform, 1906–1941

Hadi Enayat

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Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran

law, state, and society in modern iran Copyright © Hadi Enayat, 2013. All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.

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Contents

Introduction

vii 1

1

Law, State, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Iran

23

2

Law and Justice in the Mashrutiyat, 1891–1911

49

3

The Struggle to Establish New Laws and Institutions, 1911–1926

83

4

The Reforms of Ali Akbar Davar and Beyond, 1926–1941

113

5

The New Legal Institutions in Practice, 1906–1941

145

Epilogue: The Judiciary under Mohammad Reza Shah

175

Conclusion

183

Appendix I: Chronology of Legal Reform (May 1911–June 1940)

193

Appendix II: Miscellaneous Court Statistics, March–June 1932 (Farvardin–Khordad 1311)

199

Notes

201

References

235

Index

249

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Acknowledgments

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In memory of Hamid Enayat, my wonderful father.

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