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The family did not hold a specific surname before 1921, they would normally go by Hindi, which meant "from India", since their grandfather had migrated from there.However, after the 1921 Persian coup d'état, when Reza Shah passed a law ordering all Iranians to take a surname; Ruhullah chose for himself the surname Khomeini (from Khomeyn), whilst his brother Morteza chose Pasandideh (transl ...
Ruhollah Khomeini. Khadijeh Saqafi. Sayyid Mostafa Khomeini ( Persian: سید مصطفی خمینی; 12 December 1930 – 23 October 1977) was an Iranian cleric and the eldest son of Ayatollah Khomeini. He died before the Iranian Revolution .
Sayyida Zahra Mostafavi Khomeini ( Persian: زهرا مصطفوی خمینی; born 13 November 1940) is an Iranian politician and educator. The daughter of Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian Revolution and subsequent Supreme Leader of Iran, Mostafavi was awarded a PhD in philosophy from the University of Tehran, where she subsequently ...
Parent (s) Shahab od-Din Eshraghi (father) Sedigheh Khomeini (mother) Relatives. Ruhollah Khomeini (grandfather) Khadijeh Saqafi (grandmother) Zahra Eshraghi Khomeini ( Persian: زهرا اشراقی, romanized : Zahrâ Eshrâqi) (born 1964) is an Iranian activist and former government official who believes in feminism and human rights .
Children. 7, including Mostafa, Zahra, Farideh, and Ahmad. Khadijeh Saqafi ( Persian: خدیجه ثقفی ; 1915/1916 – 21 March 2009) was an Iranian revolutionary and the wife of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran and figurehead of the Iranian Revolution. In Iran, she was known as "the mother of the Islamic revolution".
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country's shah and ...
Farideh Mostafavi Khomeini. Sayyida Farideh Mostafavi Khomeini ( Persian: فریده مصطفوی خمینی; born 1943) is an Iranian female religious scholar and Ayatollah Khomeini 's youngest daughter. [1] Farideh Mostafavi studied Islamic studies at home as well as in several maktabs of Qom in the 1970s. Remarkably, she began her formal ...
v. t. e. 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 ...