The First Martyr of Constitutional Revolution of Iran

The exciting movement called Constitutional Revolution in Iran many years ago, though unable to exterminate the precarious foundation and the rotten tree of dictatorship, prepared the ground for Iranian people’s familiarity with manifestations of freedom and new forms of government and statesmanship.
The struggle of the mob and various classes of the society with advocates of dictatorial regime created new conditions in Iran. The people, who had seen nothing in their government and the rulers except oppression, tyranny and lawlessness for long years, found an opportunity to express their protests and objections on the status quo in the form of a social revolution.
The present paper is an effort to recognize the personality and role of the first martyr of the Constitutional Revolution, referred to as Sayyid Abd al-Hamid, the young seminary student.