Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi
Politician
1934 –
Who is Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi?
Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi is a hardline Iranian Twelver Shi'i cleric. He is also a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for choosing the Supreme Leader, where he heads a minority ultraconservative faction. He has been called "the most conservative" and the most "powerful" and "influential ... clerical oligarch" in Iran's leading center of religious learning, the city of Qom.
Mesbah Yazdi advocates Islamic philosophy and in particular Sadra Mutahillin's transcendent school of philosophy. He believes Iran has strayed from the values of the 1979 Iranian revolution and strongly opposes democratic rule. and the Iranian reform movement.
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- Born
- Jan 31, 1934
Yazd - Also known as
- Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi
- Religion
- Islam
- Shia Islam
- Nationality
- Iran
- Profession
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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