cleric

21Jun

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Noteworthy, Pakistan, Profiles

Mufti Muhammad Naeem, cleric

Mufti Muhammad Naeem ‑ a Pakistani cleric and Islamic scholar who served as Chancellor of Jamia Binoria – passed away on 20 June 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. His paternal family came from Surat in Indian Gujarat. His grandfather was born a Parsi who adopted Islam. Naeem was born in 1958. He co-founded the Deobandi seminary Jamia Binoria. He was executive member of Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan. He died in Karachi on 20 June 2020 because of a heart attack. However Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah revealed in a speech at Sindh Assembly that Mufti Naeem, Talib Jauhri and Munawar Hasan, all the three clerics died past week were due to Covid-19. He is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters. Earlier in 2014, his son-in-law, Masood Beg, was kil...

9Mar

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Reza Mohammadi Langroudi, cleric

Reza Mohammadi Langroudi –an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric of the rank of Ayatollah – died on 7 March 2020 after suffering from coronavirus. He served as representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the town of Langroud. Reza Mohammadi Langroudi was a student of Hossein Borujerdi, Ruhollah Khomeini and Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani. During the 1979 Islamic Revolution, he played an influential role in the marches. For a time, he was the temporary Friday imam of Langroud and Amlash. Langroudi died at the age of 91 as a result of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 7 March 2020.

28Feb

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Iran, Noteworthy, Profiles

Hadi Khosroshahi, cleric & diplomat

Seyyed Hadi Khosroshahi –an Iranian cleric and diplomat who served as the first Iranian Ambassador to the Vatican – died from Covid-19 on 27 February 2020. When he was 15 years old, Khosroshahi joined the leader of militant Fada'iyan-e Islam (Devotees of Islam), Sayyid Mojtaba Mir-Lohi, nicknamed Navvab Safavi. He was close to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Based on his interviews, in at least two cases, he sought Khomeini's approval for the assassination of the Islamic Republic's first President, Abolhassan Bani Sadr and Iran's last Queen Farah Pahlavi, both living in exile in Paris. Khomeini rejected the idea, Khosroshahi maintained. Khosroshahi was a prominent figure in the Qom Seminary and was a representative of Ayatollah Khomeini in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance afte...