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SHEIKH FAZLULLAH NOURI AND THE COMPONENTS OF CONSTITUTIONALISM

ALI ASGHAR RAJABI 1, HADI BAYATI 2.

Vol 18, No 12 ( 2023 )   |  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10453670   |   Author Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. Email: aliasghar.rajabi@khu.ac.ir 1; Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Theology, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran. *Corresponding Author Email: h.bayati@umz.ac.ir 2.   |   Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no: 1913-1922   |   Published on: 31-12-2023

Abstract

One of the events in the contemporary history of Iran is the constitutional revolution, which has had many

supporters and opponents, among which Sheikh Fazlullah Nouri is a person who was initially in the front of the

supporters of the constitution and then he took a place in the opposition front. In the political thought of Sheikh

Fazlullah Nouri, this article deals with each of the components of parliament, freedom, equality and majority vote

that were proposed in the constitutional revolution. The findings of the research indicate that the main factor

behind Sheikh Fazlullah's opposition to the constitution is his legalistic view of the constitution, and none of the

other hypotheses in this field have a position as strong as this opinion. The method of the current research is

descriptive-analytical, which has used first-hand historical sources.

Keywords

Sheikh Fazlullah Nouri, Constitutional Revolution, Parliament