Mahmoud Taleghani
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| Title | Ayatollah |
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March 5, 1911 Galird, Iran |
| Died | September 9, 1979 (aged 68) Tehran, Iran |
| Era | Modern era |
| Region | Shia Islam |
| Religion | Islam |
| Main interest(s) | Fiqh, Kalam, philosophy |
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Mahmoud Taleghani (alt. transliteration: Mahmud Taleqani) (5 March 1911 – 9 September 1979) was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shi'a cleric of Iran. Taleghani was a contemporary of the Iranian Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and a leader in his own right of the movement against the secularist Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. A founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, he has been described as a representative of the tendency of many "Shia clerics to blend Shia with Marxist ideals in order to compete with leftist movements for youthful supporters" during the 1960s and 1970s. His "greatest influence" has been said to have been in "his teaching of Quranic exegesis," as many later revolutionaries were his students.
He was notably Tehran's first Friday Prayer Imam after the Iranian Revolution.
Taleghani was born to a religious family in the village of Galird of Taleqan County in Alborz Province on 5 March 1911. His father,Abul Hasan Taleghani who published a magazine called Balagh in the protest of the Kashf-e hijab at the time of Reza Shah, taught him Islamic sciences and he continued his studies in Qom, studying the same subject at the Razaviya and Feyziyeh schools. He obtained his Ijtihad Certification from his teachers, Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani and Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi, there.
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