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9 september 1979 -lrb- aged 67 -- 68 -rrb- modern era galird , iran mohammad mossadegh , allameh tabatabaei muslim scholar fiqh , kalam , philosophy 1911 taleghani-big . jpg mahmoud taleghani
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mahmoud taleghani

mahmoud taleghani -lrb- 1911 -- 9 september 1979 -rrb- 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 .
