Jamal al-Din- Afghani (1839-1897)
Jamal al-Din-Afghani was a teacher and Egyptian nationalist. He advocated pan-Islamism. He was born in Iran. However, he claimed to have been born in Afghanistan to make his background more acceptable to Sunni disciples. He sought to revive Islam as a political force. He was invited to Iran by the then Shah. Later he fell out of favor and was forced to take sanctuary in a mosque, and eventually removed by the Shah’s troops to Iraq. He was leader of antigovernment protest resulting in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in the early 1900s. His works influenced Egyptian Nationalist Party of Mustafa Kamil.
Jamal al-Din-Afghani was a teacher and Egyptian nationalist. He advocated pan-Islamism. He was born in Iran. However, he claimed to have been born in Afghanistan to make his background more acceptable to Sunni disciples. He sought to revive Islam as a political force. He was invited to Iran by the then Shah. Later he fell out of favor and was forced to take sanctuary in a mosque, and eventually removed by the Shah’s troops to Iraq. He was leader of antigovernment protest resulting in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in the early 1900s. His works influenced Egyptian Nationalist Party of Mustafa Kamil.