Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists (original) (raw)

Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists (Persian: نهضت خداپرستان سوسیالیست, romanized: Nahzat Khoda Parastan-e Sosialist) was an Iranian political party. The party was one of six original member organizations of the National Front. The party was led by . Nakhshab is credited with the first synthesis between Shi'ism and European socialism. Nakhshab's movement was based on the tenet that Islam and socialism were not incompatible, since both sought to accomplish social equality and justice. His theories had been expressed in his B.A. thesis on the laws of ethics.