Iranian Political Science Association Research Letter of Political Science 1735790X 16 3 2021 08 23 Justice and Law in the View of Early Modernists in Qajar Iran Justice and Law in the View of Early Modernists in Qajar Iran 149 182 437 10.22034/ipsa.2021.437 FA Hamed Ameri Golestani Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran 0000-0002-7296-5579 Journal Article 2021 05 22 In the view of law-seeking of the Qajar Iranians, one of the concepts that was considered alongside the law was "justice". Law, in its new sense, had a close relationship with justice, and this was not something hidden from the eyes of the Iranian modernists of the time. Using Skinner's intentional hermeneutic method, this study seeks to answer this question: What are the relations between law and justice in the thought of Qajar Iranian modernists? On this basis, their intellectual "background" was "modernity", their "motive" was "law" and their "intention" was "justice". In the first two cases, there was a lot of similarity between them, but in the "intention" of justice, there were different views. Malkam and Talebov considered the  "law as justice" and also had an "institutional" view of justice. On the one hand, Moshtar al-Dawla paid attention to "equality and law" and on the other hand, to the "rivalry between Sharia and law" and justice. Akhundzadeh can be considered the main critic of any relationship between "equality of law and Sharia" and justice as his view toward law was solely based on its modern and liberal aspects. In the view of law-seeking of the Qajar Iranians, one of the concepts that was considered alongside the law was "justice". Law, in its new sense, had a close relationship with justice, and this was not something hidden from the eyes of the Iranian modernists of the time. Using Skinner's intentional hermeneutic method, this study seeks to answer this question: What are the relations between law and justice in the thought of Qajar Iranian modernists? On this basis, their intellectual "background" was "modernity", their "motive" was "law" and their "intention" was "justice". In the first two cases, there was a lot of similarity between them, but in the "intention" of justice, there were different views. Malkam and Talebov considered the  "law as justice" and also had an "institutional" view of justice. On the one hand, Moshtar al-Dawla paid attention to "equality and law" and on the other hand, to the "rivalry between Sharia and law" and justice. Akhundzadeh can be considered the main critic of any relationship between "equality of law and Sharia" and justice as his view toward law was solely based on its modern and liberal aspects. http://www.ipsajournal.ir/article_437_fccb60fb512d13df5083790d64c4d5dd.pdf