# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jamal-al-din-al-afghani
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:29:38.459Z

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name: "Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī"
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description: "A 19th-century Islamic ideologist who crossed borders rallying Muslims against Western empire — and ended his travels linked to the assassination of a shah he believed was selling out to Britain."
tagline: "Political activist and Islamic ideologist (1838–1897)"
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birthDate: "1838"
deathDate: "1897-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī spent the late 1800s moving through the Muslim world with a single obsession: unity against the West. Born in 1838 or 1839, he cared less about theological splits than about forging a Pan-Islamic front, especially in India under British rule. He became one of the founders of Islamic Modernism, a school that sought to reconcile tradition with the pressures of the age. His impatience with accommodation had consequences. When Shah Naser-al-Din made what Afghani saw as too many concessions to foreign powers, Afghani's follower Mirza Reza Kermani carried out the assassination in a plot Afghani helped shape. He died on 9 March 1897, his name still a touchstone for resistance and reform.