Hajj Sayyah

[1] His studies exposed him at a young age to modern and democratic ideas that were then spreading throughout parts of the world.

The stark difference that he observed between the treatment suffered by most Persia under their autocratic rulers and those ideas he studied inspired him to see the rest of the world.

He wanted to learn as much as he could about the world and how other people lived to bring those ideas back to Persia.

During his ten-year stay in the country, he met with many prominent personalities such as US President Ulysses Grant on more than one occasion.

Hajj Sayyah went on to play a major role in the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 in Persia, and he remained active until his death in 1925, at the age of 89.