Fazlollah Nouri — Encyclopaedia Iranica

Encyclopaedia Iranica entry 'NURI, FAŻL-ALLĀH' by Vanessa Martin; used for entity facts. It gives his birth at Lashak in the Kojur district of Mazandaran on 2 Dhu'l-Qa'da 1259 (24 November 1843) and his execution at Tehran on 13 Rajab 1327, his study in the Shi'ite shrine cities under Mirza Hasan Shirazi, his return to Tehran about 1882-83 to become its leading scholar and jurist, and his campaign for a constitutionalism bound by the shari'a.