Iran: 1906-1941 w/ Eskandar Sadeghi & Golnar Nikpour
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The Expansion of the State in Iran
In the late 1920s, Reza Shashay points a really interesting figure by the name of Ali Akbar. And so he appoints Dawav to centralize the judiciary. He wants to wrestle power away from the remaining Sharia courts and really centralize Iran's legal apparatus. But in fact, it actually takes several years to bring on the personnel who are sort of educated along essentially modern European legal lines. That again, this process in some ways reverses in 1979 when the courts are put into the hands of clerics as, you know, and the sort of modern bureaucrats are booted and modern legalists are booted from the judiciary.
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