Mohsen Kadivar
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Mohsen Kadivar is an Iranian mujtahid, Islamic theologian, philosopher, writer, leading intellectual reformist, and research professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. A political Iranian dissid
Mohsen Kadivar January 2012
Hussein-Ali Montazeri
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Hussein-Ali Montazeri Najafabadi was an Iranian cleric, politician, theologian, writer, and activist who served as the first and only deputy supreme leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989. A reformist, he w
Mohsen Kadivar
…began attending Shiraz Seminary. He moved to Qom in 1981 to pursue his studies in fiqh and philosophy. In Qom, he was taught by prominent teachers like Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri. Kadivar graduated with a degree in ijtihad in 1997. He got his Ph.D. in Islamic philosophy and theology from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran in…
Montazeri in 1989
Hossein-Ali Montazeri in Evin prison after his arrest by SAVAK in 1975
Montazeri as Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam leading prayers on 14 September 1979
Ali Khamenei (left) with Montazeri (right)