Ali Shariatmadari (6 January 1924 – 9 January 2017) was an Iranian academic and

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who was minister of culture in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. He was president of the Iranian Academy of Sciences from 1990 until 1998. He was also a professor of education at the Teacher Training University in

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and a member of High Council of the Cultural Revolution from 1982 until his death. He graduated with a BA in law from the

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in 1951 and went on to complete his higher education in the United States, receiving an MA in Secondary School Education from the

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in 1957. While an academic at

Shiraz University Shiraz University ( ''Dāneshgāh-e-Shirāz'', 1979 revolution, formerly known as Pahlavi dynasty, Pahlavi University دانشگاه پهلوی ''Dāneshgāh-e Pahlavi'') is a public university located in Shiraz, Fars province, Fars, Iran, establ ...

, Shariatmadari spent four months in solitary confinement as a result of supporting a student demonstration against French actions in Algeria during a visit by the

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to the city. With the advent of the

Islamic revolution The Iranian Revolution (, ), also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution of 1979 (, ) was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Im ...

in 1979, he was made minister of culture in

Mehdi Bazargan Mehdi Bazargan (; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Interim government of Iran, 1979, Iran's interim government. One of the leading figures of Iranian Revolutio ...

's interim government. Bazargan and his entire cabinet resigned in November 1979 after the Ayatollah Khomeini's advisers supported the student occupation of the US embassy in Tehran. The government had made assurances that it would end the hostage crisis. Subsequently, he was tasked, together with Mostafa Moein,

Ahmad Ahmadi Ahmad Ahmadi (; 1885 – October 1944, known as ''Pezeshk Ahmadi'' meaning Physician Ahmadi) was an Iranian nurse. He was born in Mashhad to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi. He worked as a nurse at Qasr Prison in Tehran, where he was ordered to kill politic ...

and

Abdolkarim Soroush Abdolkarim Soroush ( ), born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 16 December 1945; ), is an Iranian Islamic and Rumi scholar, and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran. He is among the most influential figures in the religio ...

, with training and vetting professors, selecting students, and Islamizing universities and their curricula. Shariatmadari died on 9 January 2017, aged 93.

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