Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh was born in 1892 in Isfahan. His worldview was shaped early on by his father who was a prominent and also a cleric and preacher, with his passionate and effective orations that attracted a large following and was instrumental in popularizing constitutionalist ideas such as freedom, justice and the rule of law for the ordinary people and the poor (Taghizadeh, in Jamalzadeh, 1999, pp. 14-15).
In addition to receiving education by accompanying his father to his meetings, sermons and speeches, Jamalzadeh was also educated in Lebanon (a few months before the anti-constitutionalist coup), received his law degree at the University of Dijon in France, and returned to Iran in 1915 before moving back to Europe and eventually settling in Berlin. There, he became a member of Iranian nationalists against the British and Russian interference in Iran.
