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Seyed Abolhassan Shams Abadi
Seyed Abolhassan Ale Rasoul known as Shams Abadi Mazandarani (1907 – April 7, 1976) was an Iranian cleric and lawyer. Life Seyed Abolhassan Shams Abadi was the son of ''Mohammad Ebrahim Mousavi Shams Abadi Mazandarani'', one of the clerics of Isfahan, and a lawyer of Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei. His grandfather, ''Seyed Mohammad Larijani'', the son of ''Seyed Abdollah Mazandarani'', had forty children, all of whom were nobles and owners of Larijan farms, and had left Amol for Isfahan. Seyed Abolhassan Shams Abadi was the son-in-law of ''Ali Meshkat Sedei'', master of Ruhollah Khomeini. Seyed Abolhassan Shams Abadi was one of the mujtahids of Isfahan, who performed congregational prayers in the ''Sarpol Mosque'' of ''Khozan'' neighborhood in the Khomeyni Shahr city. Social and cultural activities After returning from Najaf, Shams Abadi participated in activities such as helping orphans and the poor, and in the establishment and expansion of charitable institutions, such as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islam
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or ''Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the main and final Islamic prophet.Peters, F. E. 2009. "Allāh." In , edited by J. L. Esposito. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . (See alsoquick reference) " e Muslims' understanding of Allāh is based...on the Qurʿān's public witness. Allāh is Unique, the Creator, Sovereign, and Judge of mankind. It is Allāh who directs the universe through his direct action on nature and who has guided human history through his prophets, Abraham, with whom he made his covenant, Moses/Moosa, Jesus/Eesa, and Muḥammad, through all of whom he founded his chosen communities, the 'Peoples of the Book.'" It is the world's second-largest religion behind Christianity, with its followers ranging between 1-1.8 billion globally, or around a quarter of the world' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khomeyni Shahr
Khomeyni Shahr ( fa, خمينی شهر, also Romanized as Khomeynī Shahr and Khomeynīshahr; from the 1930s until 1979, known as Homāyūnshahr or Homayoon Shahr (); known as Sedeh () prior to the 1930s) is a city and capital of Khomeyni Shahr County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 218,737, in 57,551 families. Khomeyni Shahr is now part of the Isfahan Metropolitan area. The town was originally known as ''Sedeh''. In the 1930s, the name was changed to ''Homayunshahr''. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the city was renamed again to Khomeyni Shahr (meaning "City of Khomeyni"), in honor of Ayatollah Khomeini. Locals have continued to refer to the city as ''Sedeh''. There has been an ongoing effort to rename back the city's name to its historical one Mehrbin (). History It is commonly believed that the original name, Sedeh (Persian: ), is derived from ''Se-dezh'', meaning ''"three castles"'' in Persian, ("dezh" () means "castle"), and is lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Javad Ansari Hamedani
Mohammad Javad Ansari Hamedani (Born 1902 - Died April 29, 1960) was a contemporary Iranian Shiite Faqih and Mysticism, mystic. He was the son of ''Mullah Fath Ali Hamedani'' and was born in Hamadan and grew up in an Islamic religious Shia family. Educations At the age of seven, he started learning seminary lessons such as Morphology (linguistics), Morphology and Syntax with his father. From the age of twelve, which coincided with the death of his father, he studied Islamic jurisprudence and principles and some philosophical books under revision of Hamadan scholars such as ''Mirza Ali Khalkhali'', ''Seyed Arab'', ''Ali Shahidi'', ''Mohammad Ismaeel Emadol Eslam''. He studied in the fields of Unani medicine, courses of ''Abu Bakr al-Razi'', and the science of self-knowledge and ethics under revision of ''Mirza Hossein Kosar Hamedani'', the brother of ''Reza Vaez'', a famous preacher. Ansari Hamedani reached the level of ijtihad at the age of 24, which was approved by s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirza Javad Agha Tehrani
Mirza Javad Agha Tehrani (born in 1904, Tehran - died in 1989, Mashhad) was one of the Shia mystics and jurists from Iran. In 1979, he was one of the representatives of the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution from Razavi Khorasan province. He is considered a spiritual person in spite of his critical opinion of conventional mysticism and was known as a teacher of ethics. He had a good relationship with Ruhollah Khomeini. Antithesis with the conventional mysticism He, like other scholars of the Tafkik Sect, was a critic of conventional Islamic mysticism and even though he was aligned with the revolution from a political point of view, he was against mysticism and Sufism from an intellectual and ideological point of view, and for this reason he was disagreed with Ruhollah Khomeini in some cases. For example, he was sent a message to Khomeini about a request to shut down the mystical interpretation of Al-Fatiha Surah of him that was being broadcast on TV those ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorcheh Piaz
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Hajj
The Hajj (; ar, حَجّ '; sometimes also spelled Hadj, Hadji or Haj in English) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and of supporting their family during their absence from home. In Islamic terminology, Hajj is a pilgrimage made to the Kaaba, the "House of God", in the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, alongside Shahadah (oath to God), Salat (prayer), Zakat (almsgiving) and Sawm (fasting of Ramadan). The Hajj is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people, and their submission to God (Allah). The word Hajj means "to attend a journey", which connotes both the outward act of a journey and the inward act of intentions. The rites of pilgrimage are performed over five to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Hashemi
Mehdi Hashemi (1944 – 28 September 1987) was an Iranian Shi'a cleric who was defrocked by the Special Clerical Court. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he became a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards; he was executed by the Islamic Republic in its first decade. Officially he was guilty of sedition, murder, and related charges, but others suspect his true crime was opposition to the regime's secret dealings with the United States (see Iran–Contra affair). Background Hashemi was born in Qahderijan, near Isfahan, in 1944 to a well-established clerical family. Hashemi was the brother of Hadi Hashemi, Ayatollah Montazeri's son-in-law. In addition, he was the close confidant of Ayatollah Montazeri's son, Mohammad. Hashemi first became known to the Iranian public during the closing days of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1977 when SAVAK arrested him for the vigilante murder of "prostitutes, homosexuals, and drug traffickers". He was also accused of murdering a conser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hussein-Ali Montazeri
Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri ( fa, حسینعلی منتظری ; 24 September 1922 – 19 December 2009) was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian, Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the leaders of the Iranian Revolution and one of the highest-ranking authorities in Shīʿite Islam. He was once the designated successor to the revolution's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, but they had a falling-out in 1989 over government policies that Montazeri claimed infringed on people's freedom and denied them their rights, especially after the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners. Montazeri spent his later years in Qom and remained politically influential in Iran, but was placed in house arrest in 1997 for questioning "the unaccountable rule exercised by the supreme leader", Ali Khamenei, who succeeded Khomeini in his stead. He was known as the most knowledgeable senior Islamic scholar in Iran and a ''grand marja'' (religious au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qom Seminary
The Qom Seminary () is the largest Islamic seminary (''hawza'') in Iran, established in 1922 by Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi in Qom. It trains Usuli scholars. History Although big Shi'a academies existed in Qom dating back as early as 10th century CE, the hawza of the city became prominent at the time of the Safavids when Shi'a Islam became the official religion of Iran. The famous teachers of that era included Mulla Sadra and Shaykh Bahai. The modern Qom hawza was revitalized by Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi and Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi and is barely a century old. There are nearly three hundred thousand clerics in Iran’s seminaries. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani currently heads the Qom Seminary. Law school Because Sharia is legally binding in Iran, the Qom seminary also functions as a law school in Iran. Ebrahim Raisi, the former Chief Justice of the Islamic republic of Iran, is one of the more prominent alumni of the Qom seminary. All judges in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najafabad
Najafabad ( fa, نجفآباد, also Romanized as Najafābād) is a city and capital of Najafabad County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 293,275, in 90,158 families. It is located west of Isfahan (city), Isfahan and is increasingly becoming a part of the Isfahan Metropolitan area. The city serves as a trade center for agricultural products in the region, and is noted for its pomegranates and almonds. One of the attractions of Najafabad is the "Arg-e Sheykh Bahaie" that has recently been repaired. Najafabad was home to several gang activities, weapon sales and drug distribution systems controlled by notorious and unknown criminal system still being investigated by the authorities; their secrecy and network is still one of the most mysterious criminal organisations in Iran. In 2019 by the help of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Irgc, Basij, Basij Mobilisation and security forces and Islamic Republic of Iran Law Enforcement Force, Police some of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Iranian Coup D'état
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état ( fa, کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953. It was aided by the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project or "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom (under the name "Operation Boot"). The clergy also played a considerable role. Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now part of BP), in order to verify that AIOC was paying the contracted royalties to Iran, and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves. Upon the AIOC's refusal to co-operate with the Iranian government, the parliament ( Majlis) voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country. After this vote, Britain instigated a worldwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahim Arbab
Haj Agha Rahim Arbab (1875–1975) was born in Chermahin in Iran, From Isfahan Province, to a family of scholars. Haj agha Rahim Arbab is among the Islamic scholars who never wore the traditional turban. He believed that the turban is for prophets and that he did not possess the scholarly permission to wear a turban. All of his 50 students ranked as Ayatollah after graduation. Among them, Allameh Jalal Homaei, Reza Alishah Tabandeh and Ayatollah Mirdamadi are well known. Childhood Haj Agha Arbab grew up in Chermahin, and nature and simple living had a very deep effect on the development of his philosophy and theology. He learned to read and write at the age of four and started reading Persian literature at that age. As is tradition, he started with learning Gulistan and Bostan, the two books of the great Persian poet Sadi, along with Qur'anic studies. When he was five his teachers sent him back to his father, Haj Arbab, who was a scholar himself, stating that he had master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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