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| | Ruhollah Khomeini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (Persian: آیتالله روحالله خمینی Arabic: روح الله الخميني) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shi'a Muslim cleric and Marja, and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. | | | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was therefore selected by the Assembly of Experts to be Khomeini's successor. | | | Ayatollah Khomeini was also supportive of religious minorities including the Persian Jewish, Christian and Zoroastrian communities. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini
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| | A brief glance at Ayatollah al-Udhma Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi |
| | Ayatollah al-Udhma Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi is the descendent of Imam Hussein alayis-salam, the grandson of Rasulollah, Prophet Muhammad, Salallah alayhi wa’alihi wasallam. | | | The Marje’ Ayatollah al-Udhma Sayyid Ali Shirazi, the cousin of al-Mujaddid al-Shirazi, who was one most prominent Maraje’ in the holy city of Najaf. He was one of the favoured students of the renowned Sheikh al-Ansari. | | | Ayatollah al-Udhma Sayyid Sadiq Shirazi received his training at the hands of eminent Ulema and Maraje’ in the Hawzah of the holy city of Karbala, until he attained a distinguished degree in Ijtihaad. |
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http://www.shirazi.org.uk/glance.htm
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| | Ayatollah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | When Westerners say "the Ayatollah", they usually mean Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who brought the word into the international limelight during the 1979 Iranian Revolution; a possible secondary meaning would be the term's use to indicate the serving Supreme Leader of Iran. | | | Persian Ayatollah, strictly Ayætollah (Arabic: آية الله; Persian: آيتالله) is a high rank given to major Shīˤa clerics. | | | The word means "Sign of God" and those who carry the title are experts in Islamic studies such as jurisprudence, ethics, philosophy and mysticism and usually teach in schools (howzeha) of Islamic sciences. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayatollah
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| | Shia Leadership |
| | Ayatollah al-Gharawi was a well-respected religious scholar and was also a senior spiritual leader (or Marja) of Shi'a Muslims. | | | Ayatollah Shaykh Murtada al-Burujerdi was shot dead in the evening of 21 April 1998 while he was walking home with two companions after he had led congregational evening prayers at the shrine of Imam Ali. | | | It was reported that Ayatollah al-Burujerdi had been asked by the Iraqi authorities to give up his post as leader of the prayers at the shrine of Imam Ali, but he refused. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/religion-shia2.htm
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| | Ayatollah Sayed Mohamad Baqir Al-Hakim |
| | Ayatollah Sayed Mohamad Baqir Al-Hakim, was born in 1939, is the son of the late Grand Ayatollah Muhsin AI-Hakim (who was the spiritual leader for the Shia world in the period 1955-1970). | | | Grand Ayatollah Muhsin [Mohsen] Al Hakim was the spiritual leader for the Shia in the world for the period 1955-1970. | | | Ayatollah Sayed Al-Hakim was the co-founder of the Islamic political movement in Iraq, along with the Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr and other scholars. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/baqir-hakim.htm
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| | History of Iran: Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | He believed that the leadership of political activities should be in the hands of the foremost religious scholars, and he was therefore obliged to accept the decision of Ayatollah Haeri to remain relatively passive toward the measures taken by Reza Shah against the traditions and culture of Islam in Iran. | | | Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed the next day, April 1, 1979, as the "first day of God's government". | | | Ayatollah Khomeini in his 10 years of leadership established a theocratic rule over Iran. |
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http://www.iranchamber.com/history/rkhomeini/ayatollah_khomeini.php
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| | MSN Encarta - Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini (1900?-1989), full name Sayyid Ruhollah al-Musavi al-Khomeini, religious leader who, from exile, led the popular revolution that toppled Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran in 1979. | | | In the early 1920s his teacher moved to Qom (Qum) and Khomeini followed, rising from the rank of pupil to ayatollah, a term for a leading Shia scholar that literally means “gift of God.” He embraced mysticism, which teaches the relinquishing of earthly pleasures in favor of a life spent contemplating God’s mysteries. | | | Khomeini was the son of Sayyid Mostafa, a religious scholar who died six months after Khomeini was born. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761562182
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Who's who in Iraq: Ayatollah Sistani |
| | The Persian-born ayatollah represents the conservative and mainstream of Iraqi Shias - rejecting the model of Iranian-style theocracy in favour of a separation between religion and politics. | | | Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani is the prime marja, or spiritual reference, for Shia Muslims everywhere. | | | Fighting broke out again in the holy city almost simultaneously, between Sadr's militia and multi-national troops, and when Ayatollah Sistani returned three weeks later a huge responsibility was placed on his shoulders to bring an end to the bloodshed. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3033306.stm
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| | The Ayatollah then engaged in a long forty-minute monologue in which he exclusively addressed me, telling me that he did not doubt my faith and was not even in a position to "try" me in the matter in which he had no jurisdiction. | | | For the Ayatollah Sistani, the more important was the issue of "religious pluralism" and my treatment of all Abrahamic religions (Judaism,Christianity and Islam) as equal in the matter of truth. | | | It was noticeable that the Ayatollah had examined the binder prepared and had read the letter prepared by me explaining the academic study of religion. |
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http://www.uga.edu/islam/sachedina_silencing.html
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| | Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah on Encyclopedia.com |
| | KHOMEINI, AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH [Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah], 1900-1989, Iranian Shiite religious leader. | | | Educated in Islam at home and in theological schools, in the 1950s he was designated ayatollah, a supreme religious leader, in the Iranian Shiite community. | | | In Basra, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual and political leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution, appears on a portrait along with Shiite leaders, Shiite Imams and radical cleric Muqtada al Sa |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/K/Khomeini.asp
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| | RELS14 Glossary: A-D |
| | Ayatollah (from Arabic a^yat Alla^h, "sign of God") |
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| | Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani < Clerics < Shiite < Religion < : news |
| | The Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani was born in 1929 near Iran& holy city of Mashhad. | | | “Ayatollah Sistani, who received a tribal delegation from Kufa, asked that the Iraqi tribes reclaim their role of protecting the shrines,” said an official... | | | The religious edict, handed down in June by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shiite Muslim cleric, called for general elections to select the drafters of a new constitution. |
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http://www.schema-root.org/region/mideast/iraq/religion/shiite/clerics/grand_ayatollah_ali_sistani
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| | IRAQ: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - Council on Foreign Relations |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini was a proponent of an Islamic political theory that emerged in the mid-20th century called velayat-i-faqih, or rule by Islamic jurist. | | | They rise by consensus through the ranks, from the level of prayer leader to ayatollah, a title awarded to those who have exhibited mastery of Islamic law and jurisprudence and have attracted many followers. | | | The Iranian revolution deepened a growing disagreement within the Shiite community over the proper relationship between religion and politics, says Juan Cole, an expert on Iraqi history at the University of Michigan. |
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http://www.cfr.org/background/background_iraq_sistani.php
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| | Al-Sistani mixes tradition with modern outlook - The Washington Times: World |
| | The approach was in stark contrast to the militant theology espoused by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who arrived in Najaf in the mid-1960s after he was exiled by the Shah of Iran. | | | Once, after reading an Ayatollah al-Sistani announcement that appeared to defy the quietist spirit espoused by Ayatollah Khoei, a Baghdad cleric and former representative of Ayatollah al-Sistani sent him a polite but firm letter reminding him of his past statements on religion and politics. | | | But clerics, relatives and Iraqi leaders who know the ayatollah say he adamantly opposes the kind of direct religious rule that prevails in his native Iran, where clergy exercise control over all aspects of social and political life. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040309-120239-2760r.htm
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| | Arrested (1963) and exiled (1964) for his opposition to Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi's regime, he returned to Iran... | | | 1 Nov Ayatollah Khomeini chose Hasan Ali Muntazari as his future successor for the office of spiritual head... | | | ...Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah (eye-uh-TOH-luh rooh-HOH-luh khoh-MAY-nee, koh-MAY-nee) An Iranian religious and political leader of the twentieth century. |
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| | News :: Ayatollah Al-Qazwini in the Los Angeles Times Newspaper - 4/28/04 - alqazwini.org |
| | It seemed like things were going well in Iraq in the beginning, but the Ayatollah says that "U.S. forces have worn out their welcome by failing to fulfill their promises for democracy, political empowerment and reconstruction." The article later addresses the background of Ayatollah Al-Qazwini's hometown of Karbala. | | | By then, Al-Qazwini had become an ayatollah, Arabic for "sign of God," with authority to issue religious rulings, establish seminaries, teach and lecture. | | | Al-Qazwini is one of about 200 ayatollahs in the Shiite Muslim world today. |
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| | U.S. Plan in Iraq to Shift Control Hits Major Snag |
| | Ayatollah Sistani issued a religious edict in June saying a constitution must be drafted by an assembly directly elected by the Iraqis. | | | Hakim himself said one of Ayatollah Sistani's objections was that "there is no emphasis on the role of Islam and the identity of the Muslim people." | | | Hakim also spoke at a news conference in Najaf, Ayatollah Sistani's home, and said the ayatollah "expressed concern about real gaps that must be dealt with, or the plan will lack the ability to meet the hopes of the Iraqi people." |
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| | Ayatollah Ali Sistani |
| | Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was born in the Iranian city of Mashhad to a family of well-known religious scholars. | | | Now Ayatollah Ali Sistani is the prime “marja” for Shiites Muslims around the world. | | | While he was away, clashes erupted again between Mahdi Army and occupation forces in Najaf at the holy shrine of Imam Ali, and when the influential cleric returned three weeks later he, again, brokered an agreement that ended the standoff. |
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http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/people_full_story.asp?service_id=7534
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: The Good Ayatollah by Stephen Schwartz |
| | Ayatollah Sistani acts as a marja, or religious guide, for many if not most Iraqi Shia Muslims from his residence in the holy city of Najaf. | | | The lesson here is simple and essential: The Ayatollah Sistani does not seek to promote a clash of civilizations or a conflict between religions. | | | Much hope is presently vested, by friends of a free Iraq, in the 74-year-old grand ayatollah, Sayyid Ali al-Husseini Sistani. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14173
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| | Asia Times - Ayatollah's killing: Winners and losers |
| | PARIS - Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, ripped to pieces by the Volkswagen car bomb in front of the sacred Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf which killed 125 and left more than 230 wounded after last Friday's prayers, was the quintessential martyr of the current Iraqi jihad. | | | But the top de facto religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, does not want to get drawn into any political wrestling match: he is still adopting a "wait and see" attitude. | | | No Shi'ite would dream of carrying out such blasphemous violence on the doorstep of the Imam Ali Shrine, the third most sacred site for Shi'ites after Mecca and Medina. |
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| | The Murder of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq Al-Sadr |
| | At 7.30pm last Friday, Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, the popular leader of the Shia Muslims of Iraq, got into his car to drive to his house, as he did every day, from his office on the outskirts of the holy city of Najaf near the Euphrates, southwest of Baghdad. | | | The disturbances began when crowds gathered in front of the mosque as word spread that the ayatollah had been seriously injured in a gun attack in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. | | | Iraqi security forces have also been arresting representatives of Ayatollah al-Sadr in Baghdad and in the Shia heartlands of the south. |
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http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Quarter/1803/mmsalsadr.html
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| | Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani |
| | Accordingly, as more pilgrims (mainly Iranians) make their way to the holy cities, the ayatollah's financial income through religious taxes is also likely to grow. | | | The Iraqi-based Grand Ayatollahs Muhammad Isahq Fayadh and Bashir Hussein al-Najafi, the two other Marja'at at-taqlids from the non-Khomeinist Shi'i school of thought, could also emerge as strong candidates. | | | In this regard, Sistani can be identified with other prominent quietist Shi'i maraji at-taqlid, namely Ayatollah Husayn Tabatab'i Burujirdi and his successors, Ayatollahs Sayyid Kazim Shari'atmadari, Muhammad Reza Gulpayagani and Shihabu'd-Din Mar'ashi-Najafi, who refrained from claiming political authority and temporal rule. |
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http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2004/issue4/jv8no4a2.html
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| | Muslims, Islam, and Iraq |
| | Ayatollahs, Sufis and Ideologues: State, Religion and Social Movements in Iraq, edited by Faleh Abdul-Jabar. | | | Although Ayatollah Seestani was apparently not inside the house, Seestani's son was there. | | | Books of Ayatollah Seestani and Others at Ayatollah al-Seestani's Imam Ali Foundation. |
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| | Ayatollah a thorn in side of Iranian leaders - www.smh.com.au |
| | Despite his age and uncertain health, the feisty Shiite religious leader is not letting up on the sporadic attacks that have blotted his Koranic copybook with former friends in Iran's leadership. | | | Is it because Grand Ayatollah Ali Hossein Montazeri, 82, has spent five of the past six years under house arrest in his spartan quarters in this seminary town, two hours' drive south-west of Tehran? | | | Nobody is exactly sure why Iran's most senior ayatollah no longer wants an Islamic revolution. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/28/1069825987178.html
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| | CBS News The Ayatollah Al-Hakim September 2, 2003 09:56:43 |
| | The ayatollah's headquarters in Tehran is a shrine, the walls covered with pictures of 27 members of the ayatollah's family, including his brother, uncles, nephews and cousins, who were all murdered by Saddam. | | | His family name is al-Hakim, and his title is Ayatollah, as in the Ayatollah Khomeini, who took 52 American hostages after he overthrew the Shah of Iran. | | | He has thousands of troops just waiting to march to Baghdad, and he's beginning to feel that his exile of 23 years may be coming to an end. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/28/60minutes/main546624.shtml
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| | Informed Comment |
| | Ayatollah Muhammad Ya`qubi, the spiritual leader of the Fadhilah Party, forbade his followers from marching to Samarra as they had originally planed. | | | Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was shown on Iraqiyah television meeting with the other 3 grand ayatollahs in Najaf, among whom he is first among equals. | | | Al-Zaman/ AFP reports that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called for all due speed in the formation of a new Iraqi government. |
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| | The Ayatollah and Me |
| | I told him I was addressing the Ayatollah's secretary and not him. | | | I approached him to give my name, tell him that I was Jewish and wanted to see the Ayatollah on an urgent matter that involved his honour. | | | That holy man's face was later to become the most recognisable face in Iran and indeed, the whole world. |
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| | The Religious Face of Iraq (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most revered Shiite leader in Iraq, seems through the prism of the Western media to be an elusive character. | | | His views on religion, however, are perfectly clear and surprisingly available even to people who don't speak or read Arabic or the Iranian-born ayatollah's native Persian. | | | Some of his works, including "Islamic Laws: According to the fatwa of Ayatullah al Uzama Syed Ali al-Husaini seestani," an English translation of his religious edicts, are available from a publisher based in Tehran. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33388-2005Feb17.html
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| | THE IRANIAN: 1979 revolution, Payman Arabshahi |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini is after an Islamic Republic and the whole nation is supportive of him. | | | They are approaching army soldiers, throwing flowers around them, and asking them to join the uprising. | | | I shall reply to molotov cocktails by molotov cocktails... |
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| | FlyingFish - Salman Rushdie, British Petroleum (BP Amoco) & Iran |
| | The Ayatollah's foreign policy was 'neither east nor west'; with a fanatical desperation, the Iranians reclaimed national independence and dignity of a kind. | | | In any case, after the death of the spiritual leader of Iran's Shi'a Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had issued the fatwa against Rushdie, it was then endorsed by his successor, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. | | | Perhaps Ayatollah Khomeini's issuing of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, while not good and holy to my mind, now looks rather more like an understandable reaction to the attacks on his faith by a British citizen than simply the rantings of a paranoid lunatic. |
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| | After the demise of Ayatollah Shaykh Gharawi Isfahani, Khaansari began attending the lectures of Ayatollah Shaykh Muhammad Ali Kaazimayni, Sayyid Abul Qaasim Al-Khou'i, Sayyid Abdul Haadi Shiraazi, Shaykh Muhammad Kaazim Shiraazi, Sayyid Jamal Al-Din Gulpaaygaani, Shaykh Mousaa Khaansari, and Sayyid Muhsin Al-Hakeem. | | | In Najaf, he attended the lectures of Ayatollah Sayyid Abul Qaasim Al-Khou'i, Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Baqir Zanjaani, and the late Shaykh Sadraa Al-Baadkoube'i. | | | He also attended the lectures of Ayatollah Al-`Uzma Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Gharawi Isfahani, and the late Sayyid Abul Hasan Isfahani. |
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| | Another Ayatollah |
| | Now, over two decades later, another powerful Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali el-Sistani, is challenging America’s Mideast Raj, and Washington has reacted to this perfectly predictable event with deep consternation and confusion. | | | Most, though not all, appear to desire what they call Islamic democracy: an Iranian-style combination of elective and consultative assemblies with strong checks and balances, overseen by a supreme religious leader—Grand Ayatollah Sistani. | | | Having been excluded from political power, Iraq’s well-organized Shia are understandably clamoring for empowerment. |
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http://amconmag.com/2004_03_29/article.html
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| | >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Ayatollah Al-Sistani’s silence causes division among Shiites |
| | Al-Sistani’s supporters say the ayatollah prefers to say nothing, as he this is his wise way of keeping peace. | | | A Shiite ulema from Baghdad, Sheikh Jawad Al-Khalessi, has wondered why the international press always given so much importance to all of Al-Sistani’s actions and words while presenting him as the “highest Shiite authority”. | | | His fatwa aims at putting a stop to the infiltration of destabilizing forces coming from Iran and Syria. |
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| | The Ayatollah's Teachings |
| | Feel free to add your comments, seek spiritual guidance or ask for advice in dealing with your problems. | | | God bless Pug Life; God bless us all. | | | posted by Ayatollah Mugsy at 8:41 AM 2 comments |
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| | What follows is the abridged text of an address made by the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, to a large group of Air Force servicemen, including senior and commanding officers, on February 7, 2006. | | | Members of the Supervisory Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (SCIRIB) met the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei on Saturday, February 25. | | | The Islamic Revolution Cultural-Research Institute for Preserving and Publishing Works by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenie. |
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| | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
| | Two titles have been used for him, 'Ayatollah', which is the title of a religious leader, but not the highest in Shi'i Islam. | | | This was Khomeini's title at the time of the Iranian revolution, but he soon took the title 'Imam', which is definitely the highest position in Shi'i Islam. | | | The name Khomeini was taken from the town where he was born. |
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| | The Story of the Revolution Part 1 - BBC Persian |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini's supporters were preparing to welcome him back to Iran. | | | After the big march in Arba'in, Ayatollah Khomeini in a message to his supporters promised he would soon be among them in Iran. | | | Ayatollah Khomeini's advisor, Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr, says he persuaded the Ayatollah not to meet the Iranian Prime Minister. |
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| | In Najaf he attended the lectures of eminent scholars such as Ayatollah Sayyid Abulqasim al-Khu’i, Ayatollah al-Hakim, Ayatollah Mirza Abdul Haadi Shirazi, Ayatollah Milaani, Ayatollah Shaykh Muhammad Kazim Shirazi and Ayatollah Shaykh Muhammad Kazim Aal Yasin. | | | There he attended the lectures of great scholars such as Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Rida Gulpaygaani, Ayatollah Sayyid Ahmad Khaansaari, Hajj Shaykh Murtadha al-Haa’iri, Ayatollah Sultaani, Ayatollah Maazandaraani and Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Taba’taba’i. | | | Ayatollah al-Uzma Ardebili began school when he was only six; he entered Maktab School where he studied the Holy Qur&, the Tawdhih ul-Masa'il (practical book of laws), and Gulistan (a collection of poems by Sa`di, an Iranian poet). |
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| | About Us The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), is headed by Ayatollah Mohamad Baqir Al Hakim the son of the late Grand Ayatollah Muhsin Al Hakim who was the spiritual leader of the Shia in the world for the period 1955-1970. | | | He has met high officials in Iran several times such as Ayatollah Ali Khameneie, Shaikh Rafsanjani and president Khatami. | | | Ayatollah Al Hakim has strong relation with other ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq such as Turcomans, Assyrians, and all Christian groups. |
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| | Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 105 |
| | Montazari, who was removed from the position of successor by Ayatollah Khomeini himself a short time before his death, is considered a prestigious religious jurisprudent. | | | The paper called Taheri's letter a "gimmick" and claimed that gimmicks of this type could not harm the regime. | | | Ayatollah Taheri called for the release of Ayatollah Montazari, once designated Ayatollah Khomeini's successor, who has been under house arrest since 1996 for criticizing the Islamic regime. |
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| | From Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting:Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a message Sunday expressed his... | | | From Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting:Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei in a statement Wednesday expressed... | | | Posts tagged Ayatollah per day for the last 30 days. |
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| | Ayatollah - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include Ayatollah: ayatollah khomeini, ayatollah ruhollah khomeini, ayatollah al-shirazi, ayatollah al-udhma muhammad shirazi, ayatollah ali sistani, more... | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Ayatollah" is defined. | | | We found 14 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word Ayatollah: |
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| | Ayatollah Khamenei |
| | Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei is Iran’s Supreme Leader and highest authority. | | | After the assassination of President Mohammad Ali Rajai, Ayatollah Khamenei was elected president of the Islamic Republic and became the first cleric to serve in the office in 1981. | | | Ayatollah Khamenei was born in 1939 in the city of Mashhad, in Khorasan’s province of Iran. |
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http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/people_full_story.asp?service_id=5839
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| | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| | The Islamic regime rulers might continue to praise his legacy of doom, devastation and desolation, but the people of Iran have issued their historical verdict about him by creating a milieu in which the regime is forced to watch over his tomb just to prevent its destruction and defilement. | | | Ayatollah Khomeini will have his place in the dark records of the Iranian contemporary history as a man full of hate and ignorance who chose the gradual destruction of a country for fulfilling his thirst of revenge and egocentrism. | | | Many Iranians know him as the messenger of Satan rather than the God he claimed to represent. |
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http://www.arizonapersian.com/iran/_disc4/000000e9.htm
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Profile: Ayatollah Hakim |
| | At the time in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was setting up a Shia Islamic state. | | | Ayatollah Hakim, 63, was imprisoned and tortured as an opposition leader in Iraq during the 1970s and finally fled to Iran in 1980. | | | The ayatollah, himself, advocated a modern Islamic state that rejects religious extremism and is independent of foreign powers in Iraq. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3191567.stm
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