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Mahmoud Taleghani

1911 - 1979

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Sayyid Mahmoud Alaei Taleghani (Persian: سید محمود طالقانی, , also romanized as Mahmūd Tāleqānī; 5 March 1911 – 9 September 1979) was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate, a senior Shia Islamic scholar and thinker of Iran, and a leader in his own right of the movement against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. A founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, he has been described as a representative of the tendency of many "Shia clerics to blend Shia with Marxist ideals in order to compete with leftist movements for youthful supporters" during the 1960s and 1970s. His "greatest influence" has been said to have been in "his teaching of Quranic exegesis," as many later revolutionaries were his students. He was Tehran's first Friday Prayer Imam after the Iranian Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mahmoud Taleghani is the 420th most popular social activist (down from 414th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from Iran (up from 346th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 420 out of 840. Before him are Peter Arshinov, Lester R. Brown, Grace Sherwood, Alfreda Markowska, Romas Kalanta, and Frances Ames. After him are Marina Oswald Porter, Evelyn Mase, Huey P. Newton, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Aruna Asaf Ali, and Gulnara Karimova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 194. Before him are Michel Pablo, Martim Mércio da Silveira, Allan Pettersson, Viktor Nekrasov, Ellen Corby, and Said Akl. After him are Mario Perazzolo, Paris Pişmiş, Antonio Sastre, Franz Wagner, Mary Blair, and Betty Robinson. Among people deceased in 1979, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 161. Before him are John Diefenbaker, Tapio Rautavaara, Georgy Beriev, Bruno Apitz, István Örkény, and Hans von Funck. After him are Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Marcel Jouhandeau, Donny Hathaway, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Antonio María Barbieri, and Igor Bondarevsky.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 331 out of 631. Before him are Luarsab II of Kartli (1592), Ivan Galamian (1903), Mirza Kuchik Khan (1880), Ariobarzanes of Persis (-368), Abdolkarim Soroush (1945), and Jafar Sharif-Emami (1910). After him are Abbas (1944), Kamal-ol-molk (1848), Esmat Dowlatshahi (1904), Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921), Ali-Morad Khan Zand (1779), and Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Iran

Among social activists born in Iran, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 6. Before him are Shirin Ebadi (1947), Babak Khorramdin (798), Musa al-Sadr (1928), Narges Mohammadi (1972), and Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (1899). After him are Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963), Massoud Rajavi (1948), Mina Ahadi (1956), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Maryam Namazie (1966), and Zahra Eshraghi (1964).

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