Ayatollah Kashani

Abol-Ghasem Kashani
Chairman of the Parliament of Iran
In office 7 August 1952 – 12 March 1953
Monarch	Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi
Prime Minister	Mohammad Mosaddegh
Preceded by	Mohammad-Reza Hekmat
Succeeded by	Hassan Emami
Personal details
Born	1882 Tehran, Iran
Died	March 14, 1962(1962-03-14) (aged 80) Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Society of Muslim Warriors
Other political affiliations	National Front (1949–52)
Religion	Shia Islam

Ayatollah Seyyed Abol-Ghasem Mostafavi Kashani (Persian: آیت‌الله سید ابوالقاسم مصطفوی کاشانی‎‎) (1882 in Tehran, Iran – 14 March 1962 in Tehran) was a prominent Twelver Shia Muslim cleric and former Chairman of the Parliament of Iran.

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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