Mohammad Fazel Lankarani

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Mohammad Fazel Lankarani
Usul
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Websitelankarani.com

Grand

Azerbaijani father.[2]

Biography and clerical activities

Lankarani was born in

Arabic, Azerbaijani, Persian, and Russian
.

Lankarani received his

Qum
.

Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani was declared as the most knowledgeable specialist in the field of Islamic law (

Usul al-fiqh
for the last 25 years of his life.

As a Shia Grand Ayatollah, he received generous contributions from his many followers. According to author Hooman Majd "one of Lankarani's aides" told him that "approximately ten million dollars a month flows" into Lankarani's treasury "from his supporters alone."[3]

Fazel Lankarani was a strong supporter of Ayatollah Khomeini, being jailed several times and exiled once prior to the

Iranian revolution.[4] After the Iranian Revolution, he was a member of the Assembly of Experts, Iran's leading religious body.[4]

As his health conditions deteriorated he moved from the holy city of Qom to Tehran and then to London to receive medical treatment then on Friday 15 June 2007 he moved to Qom and he died on Saturday, June 16, 2007.

Grave of Ayatollah Fazel lankarani in Fatima Masumeh Shrine

Views and fatwas

Politically, Lankarani followed the traditions of the

Islamic Republic
in criticizing western corruption in the Islamic world.

Fazel Lankarani supported Ayatollah Khomeini's

Shiites in Afghanistan, then reportedly endangered by the Taliban.[6]

Lankarani also issued a

Teheran. According to Iranian and Islamic law, these sentences are only applicable if either individual freely and wilfully enters Iran and submit themselves to the authorities.[citation needed] Possibly related to the fatwa, Rafiq Tağı died in a Baku hospital on November 19, 2011, after having been stabbed with a knife seven times in public.[8]

Lankarani believed strongly in the separation of sexes and opposed President

CEDAW
, he announced that joining CEDAW and moving toward gender equality would contradict Islamic values.

He is one of the Ulama signatories of the Amman Message, which gives a broad foundation for defining Muslim orthodoxy.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ A Brief Account of the Life and Works of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Fazel Lankarani The Official website of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Fazel Lankarani
  2. ^ (in Turkish) Cehennemin kapıları/H.Miray VURMAY – ORTADOĞU ARAŞTIRMALARI MASASI Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran, Doubleday, 2008. p.81
  4. ^ a b c Reuters via CNN, "Senior Iranian leader dies" June 16 2007
  5. ^ Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, (2008). p.78
  6. ^ BBC Newsroom Middle East Ayatollah calls for protection of Afghan Shiites August 15, 1998.
  7. ^ Frances Harrison, BBC News in Teheran (November 29, 2006). "Iran issues fatwa on Azeri writer". BBC News. Retrieved 2006-11-30.
  8. ^ رناد منشو (Renad Manshu) (November 23, 2011). "نويسنده آذربايجانی منتقد اسلام در پی سوء قصد درگذشت (in Persian)". Radio Farda. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
  9. ^ BBC Persian
  10. ^ Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, (2008). p.78-9
  11. ^ Lankarani's official reply to Amman Message

External links

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