Abol-Ghasem Kashani
| Abol-Ghasem Mostafavi-Kashani | |
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| 14th Chairman of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 8 August 1952 – 1 July 1953 |
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| Monarch | Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi |
| Preceded by | Hassan Emami |
| Succeeded by | Abdullah Moazzami |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 November 1882 Tehran, Iran |
| Died | 14 March 1962 (aged 79) Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Society of Muslim Warriors |
| Other political affiliations |
National Front (1949–52) Azure Party (1940s) |
Sayyed Abu’l-Qāsem Kāšāni (Persian: سید ابوالقاسم کاشانی; November 19, 1882 – March 14, 1962) was an Iranian politician and Shia Marja.
His father, Ayatollah Hajj Seyyed Mostafavi Kashani (Persian: آیتالله حاج سید مصطفوی کاشانی), was a noted clergyman of Shiism in his time. Abol-Ghasem was trained in Shia Islam by his religious parents and began study of the Quran soon after learning to read and write.
At 16, Abol-Ghasem went to an Islamic seminary to study literature, Arabic language, logic, semantics and speech, as well as the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, or Fiqh. He continued his education at the seminary in an-Najaf in the Qur'an and Hadiths as interpreted in Shia law, receiving his jurisprudence degree when he was 25.
His son Mostafa died in an accident in 1955; the new prime minister, Hossein Ala', escaped an assassination attempt at the funeral. According to British intelligence, around this time two of his sons were involved in a lucrative business buying and selling import-export licenses for restricted goods.
One of Kashani's children, Mahmoud Kashani, went on to become head of the Iranian delegation to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, in Iran's case with the United States and a presidential candidate in the Iranian presidential elections of 1988 and 2005. His second son is Ahmad Kashani, a former member of Iranian parliament.
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