Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopaedia Iranica |
Edition | Online |
Publication status | Published - 19 Jun 2014 |
Abstract
Shaikh Fazlallah (1843-1909) was a prominent jurist who campaigned in the Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1909 for constitutionalism according to the shariʿa, and in its default, preferred absolutism to secularism.