This project, investigating the religious reformists’ discourses on gender and particularly women’s rights, at the beginning of 20th century Iran, will focus on the three reformist figures of that era: Shariat Sangelaji (1891-1944), Asadollah Kharaqani (1838-1936), and Muhammad Khalesizadeh (1888-1963). Regarding the dominant discourses of the time, nationalism, secularization, and modernization relating to gender, the reformists’ discourses can be framed as reactions to them. Moreover, they engaged in discourses on marriage reform, unveiling, the medicalization of gender, women and backwardness, and gender equality. Although they all shaped their discourses as reactions (whether to modernists or traditionalists), each of these scholars reveals a specific point of view that goes beyond the dichotomy of modern/traditional. They combined different aspects of modernity with Islamic tradition to craft their personal version of Shi‘i reform.