Supreme Council of Culture and Certification of Ijtihad License: Examining the performance of the Ijtihad and AftaShura Commission to approve the ijtihad of mujtahids

With the formation of the new educational system in Iran from the middle of the Qajar period, the traditional educational system was challenged.In this challenge, school education gradually disappeared completely, and despite resistance over several decades in some areas, including villages, it was gradually defeated by new schools.But in the meantime, the important branch of traditional education, namely seminary education, moved in step with the modern education system and continued to exist despite some ups and downs.But later, especially during the Pahlavi era, especially the second Pahlavi era, the issue arose that mechanisms to formalize the seminary education system should be formulated and approved. This article, that is a descriptive and a library method one, indicates that during the second Pahlavi era, with the formation of a commission in the Supreme Council of Culture (1346-1317) under the title of Ijtihad and Afta Commission, the country’s cultural policymakers recognized Shiite Mujtahid’s ijtihad as equivalent to a new education diploma, and by granting certificates to this group of mujtahids, they made it possible to enjoy some of its benefits.