A Genealogy of Enactment of Non-Profit Schools Law in 1988

This article examines the formation, development and discoursal exchanges affecting Non-Profit School Law enacted in 1988. For carrying out a historical investigation into this event, Foucault's genealogy-based historiography has been used. The main objective of this method is the discovery of immanent order and attribution relationship at the level of predicates' analysis which has been used as the basis for practice and been able to confirm or reject a discourse.the activity of Islamic non-profit schools after the revolution had been a continuation of a process which was formed in 1940s as motivated by creating a healthy environment for education and boosting hopes for the possibilities of having a religious life and of the co-existence of religion and science. A concrete result of which was the organized and pervasive founding of Islamic schools. These schools had two different kinds of subjectivity for Shah's regime and the one after the revolution. Coincided with other trends, this course was brought back into focus from mid 1980s and thus led to the enactment of Non-Profit School Law in 1988. Islamic juridical and political differences among revolutionary forces, war and the resultant economic conditions, the issue of political Islam, the position of Imam Khomeini's meta-discourse and cultural changes of the society were some trends which occurred in the middle of this decade. As a result of their coincidence, the nationalization and planning discourse of education was replaced by governmental supervision and economic participation of people, which paved the way for the enactment of this law.