Hekmat and Sadiq provide different versions of the composition of this committee: apart from himself and Mohammad ‘Ali Gorgani, the director of the state’s Department of Retirement (Edareh-ye Taqa‘od), who is also mentioned by Hekmat, Sadiq lists four members whom he introduces exclusively as instructors at the Teachers College: Gholamhoseyn Rahnama, ‘Ali Akbar Siyasi, Rezazadeh Shafaq, and Mahmud Hesabi.
According to Hekmat, Siyasi was admitted to the committee in his capacity as head of the bureau of higher education at the Ministry of Education, a position he was appointed to only in November/December 1933, i.e. after the committee had been set up. Hesabi is not named in Hekmat’s records; however, he includes five members not mentioned by Sadiq: the director of the College of Law ‘Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, two physicians holding doctoral degrees from French universities, and two members whom he subsumes under the rubric of traditional Islamic education, i.e. instructors who had not acquired any western education and taught at the Madreseh-ye Sepahsalar.
Hekmat himself was not a permanent member of the committee but attended its meetings by virtue of his office whenever he was able to. Detailed information on the timeframe of the committee as well as on the issues of discussion is not available. Hekmat speaks of numerous meetings, Sadiq refers to only three or four. Hekmat states that the assembled gentlemen worked out a detailed plan through an open exchange of views and joint consultation, Sadiq asserts that his draft was modified only insignificantly
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