Fidāʾiyyān-i Islām - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Katouzian, Homa
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Leiden
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Brill
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The Fidāʾiyyān-i Islām (usually spelt Fadāʾiyyān-i Islām in Persian) group was a radical Islamist movement in twentieth-century Iran. It was founded in March 1946, largely in response to Aḥmad Kasravī's (1890-1946) critique of Shīʿī Islam. Its founder and leader was the young cleric Sayyid Mujtabā Mīrlawḥī, otherwise known as Navvāb-i Ṣafavī (1924-55). The group's aim was to establish an Islamic government in Iran within the existing constitutional monarchy, and it had some affinities and contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood and similar Islamic