Iran's legal system rests on Islamic law as reinterpreted through Twelver Shia jurisprudence, established as the basis of the state's legal order by the constitution adopted after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which requires that all legislation conform to Islamic principles. The Guardian Council, a body of clerics and jurists, reviews every law passed by the elected parliament, the Majlis, and can veto legislation it judges incompatible with Islamic law or the constitution. Procedurally the courts retain civil law style structures inherited from legal reforms carried out earlier in the twentieth century under French influence, but substantive criminal law is governed by the Islamic Penal Code, which prescribes categories of punishment, including hudud, qisas and diya, drawn directly from Islamic legal doctrine. The result is a hybrid system in which continental style procedure and court organization operate under a religious law framework that the constitution declares supreme over ordinary legislation.
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Wikidata: Mehrangiz Manouchehrian
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Ishoʿbokht (late 7th or late 8th century) was a Persian legal scholar, Christian theologian and philosopher.
Mādayān ī Hazār Dādestān (Wikipedia)
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Mādayān ī Hazār Dādestān (Book of a Thousand Judgements) is a significant primary document concerning the social and institutional history of Sasanian Iran and the only entirely legal treatise on pre-Islamic Sasanian jurisprudence to have survived from the Zoroastrian era.
Civil Code of Iran (Wikipedia)
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The Civil Code of Iran, also referred to as Civil Code of Persia, is the principal codification governing private law in Iran.
Jamshid Momtaz (Wikipedia)
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is an Iranian jurist and academic
Islamic Penal Code of Iran (Wikipedia)
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The Islamic Penal Code of Iran is the codified national criminal law of Iran. Th
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Al-Juwayni (Wikipedia)
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Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī (Arabic إمام الحرمين ضياء الدين عبدالملك بن يوسف الجويني, 17 February 1028 - 20 August 1085; 419-478 AH) was a Sunni Muslim scholar famous for being the foremost leading jurisconsult, legal theoretician and Islamic theologian of his time.
Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari (Wikipedia)
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Abu’l-Ṭayyib Ṭāher Bin ʿAbdallāh Bin Ṭāher al-Ṭabarī al-Āmolī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī commonly known as Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī (Arabic: أبو الطيب الطبري) was an Iranian jurisconsult, professor of legal sciences and was the chief judge in Baghdad.
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