Dihkhudā, ʿAlī-Akbar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Perry, John R.
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Mīrzā ʿAlī-Akbar Dihkhudā (b. 1879, Tehran; d. 1956, Tehran) was a scholar, journalist, and politician during Iran's Constitutional Revolution (1905-11), which led to the establishment of a parliament in Iran under the Qājār dynasty (r. 1210-1344/1795-1925). Dihkhudā came from a landowning family in Qazvīn, as reflected in his nickname (lit., village headman)-and its vernacular forms Dakhaw and Dikhaw-which became his journalistic sobriquet. He was educated by two leading liberal mujtahid s (legal authorities with the power to reason independently), Shaykh Ghulām Ḥusayn