Sayyid Jamal al-Din "Va'iz" Esfahani (Seyed Jamal Vaez ["The Preacher"], 1862–1908)- was a popular pro-constitutional

Iranian Constitutional Revolution

The Persian Constitutional Revolution or Iranian Constitutional Revolution took place between 1905 and 1907...

 preacher and writer in Persia

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. He was one of the founders of a constitutional movement in Isfahan in 1890s. He wrote for the reformist newspapers - especially for "Al Jamal". He wrote mostly about the economy and the financial autonomy of Persia, which he compared it to jihad

Jihad

Jihad , an Islamic term, is a religious duty of Muslims. In Arabic, the word jihād translates as a noun meaning "struggle". Jihad appears 41 times in the Quran and frequently in the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of God ". A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid; the plural is...

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Publications

• "Lebas ot taqva" - against import of goods
• "The True Dream" with Majd al- Islam Kirmani (1872–1922)