Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
While different groups—Seljuks, Mongols, and Turkomans— would rule the region over a period of more than a thousand years, Islam ...
Muslims, members of the Islamic faith, follow the teachings of the Qur’an(Koran). The Qur’an is a compilation of teachings prese ...
uncouth, counterfeit line of caliphs, and themselves to be defenders of justice and of the true Muslim faith. In late- twentieth ...
The ulema acquired more than just popular respect for their intimate knowledge of the Qur’an. They acquired financial power. The ...
people. In time, Khomeini and other Muslim religious leaders would exercise their control to bring about a new and very differen ...
country and sought to Westernize it. In 1935, he proclaimed that Persia was to be known as Iran. The word commemorates the Aryan ...
But Reza Shah Pahlavi discovered that the Iranian people’s loyalty to their Muslim leaders was greater than their interest in hi ...
From its beginning, Iran, like many other Islamic nations, has been marked deeply by two contrasting characteristics: religious ...
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A yatollah Ruhollah Khomeini likely will be remembered as one of the most puzzling national leaders in history. Facts of his chi ...
When Ruhollah was an infant, his father was killed. Details of his death are unclear. Some believed he was slain by robbers whil ...
scholar, Ayatollah Abdul Karim Haeri. Haeri himself had been trained by Shirazi, the famous cleric who had declared tobacco ille ...
Over the years, they would have eight children. Five survived infancy. As we will see later, his oldest surviving son, Mustafa, ...
Khomeini, connoting the town of his birth. This was in accor- dance with Shiite custom, which called for religious teachers to b ...
Haeri died in 1937. Replacing such an important scholar was a difficult challenge. Not until 1944 was his successor installed, a ...
Social justice was a principle he would preach throughout his life. Furthermore, he pointed to corruption in the government as a ...
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M uhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, it might be argued, was not exactly the callous, extravagant leader depicted by the revolutionaries ...
tons of oil in 1950, making it one of the leading oil-producing countries in the world. While the middle and upper classes of Ir ...
toward that end. For example, he managed to bring the country’s military under the control of the Majlis; previously, it had bee ...
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