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Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (Persian: محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away from governmental positions and was a critic of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini ...
Mohammad Kazem Shariat-Madari was an Iranian cleric who, as one of five Shīʿite grand ayatollahs, was the leading representative of the clergy during the final years of the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. An early associate of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Shariat-Madari helped establish Iran.
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Feb 11, 2022 · Khomeini’s most effective opponent, however, was Ayatollah Seyyed Kazem Shariatmadari, another influential cleric, who brought together a millions-strong opposition movement which rose in 1979 to prevent the establishment of the Islamic Republic as we now know it.
Nov 3, 2009 · In May 1978, the Shah's special forces raided the home of Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, an important marja' taghlid [source of emulation] and a moderate. One of his students...
Aug 6, 2009 · Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari Critic of Khomeini’s theory of clerical rule (died 1986) Shariatmadari helped save his rival Khomeini from the shah’s firing squad in 1963 by recognising him as a grand ayatollah (which made him, according to Iran’s constitution, immune from execution).
Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari saved Ruhollah Khomeini from the Shah’s firing squad by giving him the title of Grand Ayatollah. Despite this, the two would maintain a very adversarial relationship following the 1979 revolution.
Mar 6, 2011 · The Historical Precedent. Ayatollah Seyed Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari: From house arrest to death. Ayatollah Shariatmadari (left) with Ayatollah Khomeini. Grand Ayaollah Seyed Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari was a prominent Shia marj’a since the 1960s.
