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Islam and Revolution (Persian: اسلام و انقلاب) is a two-volume set of writings by Ayatollah/Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, which contain a collection of his speeches and writings. Islam and Revolution I: Writings and Declarations. The first volume covers the years 1941 to 1980, and was compiled and translated from Persian by Hamid Algar.
Ayatollah Khomeini was a senior Islamic jurist cleric of Shia Islam. Shia theology holds that Wilayah or Islamic leadership (political and religious) belongs to a divinely-appointed line of Shia Imams descended from a cousin ( Ali ) and daughter ( Fatima ) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , the last of which is the 12th Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi .
Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini [b] (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902 [a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian Revolution ...
Implementing pure monotheism among Islamic nations: Khomeini says "Thank God, in the rule of our Islamic Republic, there is no difference between the principled, political and doctrinal positions, and everyone is determined to implement pure monotheism among the Islamic nations and to stone the head of the enemy to achieve the victory of Islam ...
978-1502501691. Forty Hadith ( Persian: شرح چهل حدیث) is a 1940 book written by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It describes his personal interpretations of the forty traditions attributed to Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, and The Twelve Imams. [1]
Tahrir al-Wasilah (Arabic: تحرير الوسيلة; Exegesis of the Means of Salvation or Commentaries on the Liberation of the Intercession; in Persian: تحریر الوسیله Tahrir al-Vasileh) is a book by Ayatollah Khomeini as a commentary on a traditional theological text, and as a guide for Shia jurists on the opinions of Khomeini.
The Islamic Jurisprudence Academy in Mecca urged that Rushdie be tried, and if found guilty, be given a chance to repent (p. 93), and Ayatollah Mehdi Rohani, head of the Shi'i community in Europe and a cousin of Khomeini, criticised Khomeini for 'respect[ing] neither international law nor that of Islam.'
Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani ( Arabic: علي الحسيني السيستاني, romanized : ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Sīstānī; born 4 August 1930) is an Iranian-born Iraqi Islamic scholar. A Grand Ayatollah and marja, al-Sistani is considered the spiritual leader of Twelver Shia Muslims worldwide. Born in Mashhad to a sayyid family, al-Sistani ...