The first person who heralded Islamic awakening and sowed the seeds of change and transformation in Iranian society at the end of the Qajar period was Seyyed Jamal al-Din Asadabadi. Unlike many other invitations and movements, his call and movement had both an intellectual-cultural and a political-social aspect, and these two aspects were also logically linked to each other. The beginning of his struggle against the internal tyranny and foreign colonialism of the Qajar period was in the case of the tobacco movement. Some believe that Seyyed Jamal's letter had a significant impact on the issuance of the famous fatwa banning tobacco by Ayatollah Mirza Shirazi and the tobacco movement. After the tobacco movement, he sought to reform the Qajar government and Nasser al-Din Shah himself, but his reforms were opposed by Nasser al-Din Shah, and eventually the Qajar king ordered his exile from the country. Seyyed Jamal introduces the way to cure the corruption of the Qajar government and all the royal dynasties in Iran as establishing law and transforming the tyrannical government into a constitutional government and establishing law instead of customs and orders.
Tahernia,R. (2025). The Intellectual Role of Seyyed Jamal al-Din Asadabadi as a Pioneer of Islamic Awakening in the Constitutional Movement. Journal of Political Strategy, 9(2), 87-108.
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Tahernia,R. . "The Intellectual Role of Seyyed Jamal al-Din Asadabadi as a Pioneer of Islamic Awakening in the Constitutional Movement", Journal of Political Strategy, 9, 2, 2025, 87-108.
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Tahernia R. (2025). 'The Intellectual Role of Seyyed Jamal al-Din Asadabadi as a Pioneer of Islamic Awakening in the Constitutional Movement', Journal of Political Strategy, 9(2), pp. 87-108.
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Tahernia R. The Intellectual Role of Seyyed Jamal al-Din Asadabadi as a Pioneer of Islamic Awakening in the Constitutional Movement. Journal of Political Strategy, 2025; 9(2): 87-108.