Editing Islamism (section)

====Historical figures====
* [[Sheikh]] [[Fazlullah Nouri]],<ref>Mackey, Sandra, The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation by Sandra Mackey, New York : Dutton, c1996, pp. 150–55</ref> a cleric of the Qajar dynasty court and the leader of the anti-constitutionalists during the [[Persian Constitutional Revolution|Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1911]],<ref name="HERMANN-2013-430">{{cite journal |last1=HERMANN |first1=DENIS |title=Akhund Khurasani and the Iranian Constitutional Movement |journal=Middle Eastern Studies |date=May 2013 |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=430–453 |doi=10.1080/00263206.2013.783828 |jstor=23471080 |s2cid=143672216 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23471080 |access-date=20 April 2023 |archive-date=5 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305220832/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23471080 |url-status=live }}</ref> who declared the new constitution contrary to sharia law.<ref>Donzel, Emeri "van" (1994). ''Islamic Desk Reference''. ISBN 90-04-09738-4. pp. 285–286</ref>
* [[Navvab Safavi]], a religious student who founded the ''[[Fada'iyan-e Islam]]'', seeking to purify Islam in Iran by killing off 'corrupting individuals', i.e. certain leading intellectual and political figures (including both a former and current prime minister).<ref name="Taheri, 1985 p.98">Taheri, ''The Spirit of Allah'', (1985), p. 98</ref> After the group was crushed by the government, surviving members reportedly chose Ayatollah Khomeini as a new spiritual leader.<ref name=Moin-224>Moin, ''Khomeini'' (2000), p. 224</ref><ref name=Taheri-187>Taheri, Amir, ''Spirit of Allah : Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution '', Adler and Adler c1985, p.187</ref>
* [[Ali Shariati]], a non-cleric "socialist Shi'i" who absorbed Marxist ideas in France and had considerable influence on young Iranians through his preaching that [[Imam Hussein]] was not just a holy figure but the original oppressed one (''muzloun''), and his killer, the Sunni Umayyad Caliphate, the "analog" of the modern Iranian people's "oppression by the shah".<ref>Kepel, ''Jihad'', 2002, pp. 107–8</ref>
* [[Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr]], a Shi'i Islamic scholar in Iraq who critiqued Marxism, socialism and capitalism and helped lead Shi'i opposition to Saddam Hussein's Baath regime before being executed by them.
* [[Mahmoud Taleghani]], an ayatollah and contemporary of Khomeini, was more leftist, more tolerant and more sympathetic to democracy, but less influential, though he still had a substantial following. Was deposed from revolutionary leadership<ref>Mackay, ''Iranians'', (1998), p. 291</ref> after warning of a "return to despotism" by the revolutionary leadership.<ref>Keddie, ''Modern Iran'', (2006), p. 245</ref>