birth_date: 1902-09-24 00:00:00
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name: Ruhollah Khomeini
about: The home page is here:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show....Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini and as Imam Khomeini inside Iran, was an Iranian politician and cleric. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the end of the 2,500 year old Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death.Khomeini was a marja ("source of emulation") in Twelver Shia Islam, The home page is here:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show....Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini and as Imam Khomeini inside Iran, was an Iranian politician and cleric. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the end of the 2,500 year old Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death.Khomeini was a marja ("source of emulation") in Twelver Shia Islam, a Mujtahid or faqih (an expert in Sharia). He spent more than 15 years in exile for his opposition to the last shah. In his writings and preachings he expanded the theory of welayat-el faqih, the "Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (clerical authority)", to include theocratic political rule by Islamic jurists. ...more
death_date: 1989-06-03 00:00:00