Sheikh Fadlallah Al-Nuri and his Intellectual and Political Role in the Tobacco and Tabak Uprising in Iran (1890-1892(

Abstract

Iran's modern and contemporary history has witnessed the emergence of many scholarly religious figures who played important political, social and cultural roles that were at the forefront of events at the time.  Sheikh Fadlallah al-Nuri is one of these personalities, if not the most important on the level of the political and intellectual arenas in Iran.  And the masses.  As he worked to organize the scholarly community and enlighten people to the extent that some historians see him as the reason behind the issuance of the fatwa (the prohibition of abuse).

It turned out that Sheikh Fadlallah al-Nuri had a prominent role in the tobacco uprising, and it was the first successful political experiment that he fought and commissioned by the Mujaddid al-Mujaddid Mirza al-Shirazi, and it became clear that his goal to move to Iran was purely political, by conveying everything that happens of deterioration in Iran's general conditions to the religious and social leadership  And the political establishment in Samarra, and to make it a picture due to the weakness of the means of communication, after the governmental apparatus persisted in his despotism by making Iran a commodity exposed to foreigners, and the Sheikh also succeeded in his first uprising by highlighting the importance and strength of the religious establishment because of the tools it possesses by which it controlled the rhythm of the Iranian people with an Islamic orientation, as well.  On his contribution to revitalizing the protest movement in exercising its role in the future to influence the course of Iranian governments, and the Sheikh took the initiative to strike foreign interests by showing the danger of the tobacco privilege and forbidden because of its great strategic importance for the acquisition in the Iranian state, but rather considered it a form  Clear and direct colonization of the capabilities of the people.