Colloquially,Ruhollah KhomeiniandAli Khamenei, Iran’s first tworahbars, have often been called “the ayatollah.” However, that title reflects their clerical rank rather than their political position. The formal title of Iran’s supreme leader,rahbar, translates, simply, as “leader,” while the...
completed in a span of 20 years), (3) Muntahal Amal fi Tareekh al Nabi wal Aal (A comprehensive book upon the lives of the Fourteen Infallibles), (4) Al Fusoolul Aliyyah fil Manaqibal Murtazawiyyah (Upon the excellences and ethics of Imam Ali), (5) Ad Durrun Nazim fi Lugatil ...
Those early experiences left Mohammadi preoccupied with the treatment ofpolitical prisoners. When she studiedphysicsin the early 1990s at Imam Khomeini University inQazvīn, she was heavily involved incivic engagementon campus, including founding a political group for students. It was at the university...
Ebrahim Raisi was an Iranian cleric, prosecutor, and politician who served as Iran’s head of the judiciary (2019–21) and later as the country’s president (2021–24). He received a religious education on the eve of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. After