Mehdi Haeri Yazdi

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Grand Ayatollah Mehdi Haeri Yazdi (1923-1999) (Persian: حائري يزدي (name not complete); Arabic: المهدي الحائري اليزدي ; transliteration: al-Ḥa’irī̄ al-Yazdī̄) was a prominent Shia Islamic cleric in Iran, the son of Shiekh Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi, the founder of Qom semenary and teacher of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who became the leader of the Iranian Revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Mehdi Haeri Yazdi himself was "one of Khomeini's prominent pupils" [1] but parted ways with Khomeini on several issues. He opposed Khomeini's theory of velayat-e faqih as justification for rule of the Islamic state by Islamic jurists,[2][3] Khomeini's unwillingness to end the Iran-Iraq War,[4] and believed Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie was "inconsistent with the principles of Islamic law, or Shari'a" and "against the interests of Muslim society."[5]


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  1. ^ Iran: Rushdie Affair Continues To Cloud Tehran's Claims Of Rejecting Violence (Part 4)
  2. ^ Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years By H. E. Chehabi
  3. ^ 2/24/06 Perseverance and honor: Interview with Abbas Amir-Entezam
  4. ^ Nasr, Vali, The Shia Revival, Norton, (2006), p.119-20
  5. ^ RFERL, Iran: Rushdie Affair Continues To Cloud Tehran's Claims Of Rejecting Violence (Part 4), March 11, 2005


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