Abdallah Mazandarani

Abdallah Mazandarani
عبدالله مازندرانی
The trio: (left to right) Akhund Khurasani, Mirza Husayn Tehrani and Abdullah Mazandarani
Personal
Born1840 (1840)
Died1912 (1913)
ReligionIslam
NationalityIranian
RegionNajaf, Iraq
JurisprudenceTwelver Shia Islam
Muslim leader
Based inNajaf, Iraq
Period in office1894–1912
PostGrand Ayatollah

Ayatollah Shaykh Abdallah Mazandarani (Persian: عبدالله مازندرانی) (AD 1840–1912;[1] AH 1256–1330) was a Shia Marja' and a leader of the constitutional movement against the Qajar dynasty. He was a pupil of Mirzaye Rashti. He worked alongside Akhund Khurasani and Mirza Ḥusayn Khalīlī Tihranī to support the first democratic revolution of Asia, Iran's Constitutional Revolution, and co-signed all major statements of the main source of emulation, Akhund Khurasani.[1]

  1. ^ a b Farzaneh, Mateo Mohammad (2015). “The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani”. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8156-5311-0.