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Justice House (`Idalat-khana): From a "Religious Movement" Towards a "Political Regime"

Zabihullah Naimiyan

تاریخ در آئینه پژوهش ش 15. سال چهارم، شماره سوم، پائيز 1386

http://tarikh.nashriyat.ir/node/504

A PhD student of Political Sciences

Before the constitutional revolution and the establishment of constitutional government, a movement called "the movement of Idalat-khana (Justice House)" was formed, which had great influence on the formation of constitutionalism in Iran. This model of `Idalat-khana, however, did not manage to develop into a full-fledged system of government. This religious movement was a reflection of Iranians' religio-political demands in the modern age when the colonialism-oriented autocracy was raging; but in the midway, this movement underwent deep transformation. In the meanwhile, the concept of `Idalat-khana became subject to contvoversies and its notion wavered between western juridical-parliamentary models and the conventional parliament of guilds and groups of people, each group or faction trying to give it a sense based on its own views and leanings. Thus, finally the local capacity of this idea remained close to the western models, and it was replaced by the concept constitutionalism, not allowing the movement of justice to develop into the `Idalat-khana system.