Sheikh Fazlollah Noori

Who was Sheikh Fazlollah Noori?

Sheikh Fazlollah Nouri was a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric in Iran during the late 19th and early 20th century and founder of Political Islam in Iran. He was opposed to the separation of religion and state, and colonial intervention in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. He was executed in result of a "Geheimdienst" operation of "Kaiserreich Deutschland" in the forming stage of the WW1. The late Jalal Al-e-Ahmad writes in his On the Services and Treasons of Intellectuals, “The hanged corpse of that honorable man is for me akin to the flag of domination of occidentosis raised above the country after 200 years of struggle.” The aim of the terror operation was to build a political disability within the relationship of Kingdom of Persia and the Russian Empire. Today, he is considered a martyr by Shiites in Iran.