1909: Sheikh Fazlollah Noori, anti-constitutionalist martyr
Add comment July 31st, 2020 Headsman
Shia cleric Sheikh Fazlollah Noori was hanged by Iran’s Constitutionalist government on this date in 1909.
We’ve observed previously the convulsions of the 1905-1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution, which proposed to bind the Qajar dynasty with a parliament. The movement achieved a constitution in 1906, which was then violently abolished by the Qajar sovereign. We meet the Constitutionalists in this post at the apex of their counterattack, in the heady aftermath of the July 13, 1909 Triumph of Tehran that forced that same Qajar sovereign to abdicate in favor of his young son
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Needless to say, this was a tight moment for anti-constitutionalists.
Noori was that — not just that, but an apostate who had once espoused a parliament to restrain the despotism of the shahs, but denounced the project as un-Islamic when Western-influenced secular liberals emerged at the helm. Noori had had in mind a collaboration between state and religious authorities that would ensure a godly ship of state.
The tracts he’d issued in those key years anathematizing the reformists — and the support that he’d given the Qajar anti-constitutional coup a couple years earlier — weighed against him once those same reformists seized power.
He’s a martyr in the eyes of present-day conservatives in the Islamic Republic, who view him as a key figure in recognizing the colonial and anti-Islamic bent of western-style parliamentarianism, and an essential theorist for Islamic governance.
On this day..
- 1849: Maximilian Dortu, republican martyr - 2019
- 1940: Udham Singh, Jallianwala Bagh massacre avenger - 2018
- 1934: Otto Planetta and Franz Holzweber, for the Juliputsch - 2017
- 1767: Obadiah Greenage, colonial gangster - 2016
- 1701: Esther Rodgers, repentant - 2015
- 1868: Stefan Karadzha, Bulgarian national hero - 2014
- 1812: Hölzerlips, Blood Court prey - 2013
- 1722: Cartouche's brother, hanged by the armpits - 2012
- 1602: Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron - 2011
- 1903: Hilario Hidalgo and Francisco Renteria - 2010
- 1959: Cho Pong-am, Presidential runner-up - 2009
- 1963: 21 Iraqi Communists - 2008
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Intellectuals,Iran,Martyrs,Power,Religious Figures
Tags: 1900s, 1909, fazlollah noori, july 31, tehran
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