RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Navvab Safavi

1924 - 1956

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Mojtaba Mir-Lohi (Persian: سيد مجتبی میرلوحی, 9 October 1924 – 18 January 1956), better known as Navvab Safavi (Persian: نواب صفوی), was an Iranian Shia cleric and dissident who founded the Fada'iyan-e Islam group. He played a role in assassinations of Iranian prime ministers Abdolhossein Hazhir, Haj Ali Razmara and intellectual Ahmad Kasravi. On 22 November 1955, after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the prime minister of Iran, Hossein Ala', Safavi and some of his followers were arrested. In January 1956, Safavi and three other members of Fada'iyan-e Islam were sentenced to death and executed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Navvab Safavi is the 2,427th most popular religious figure (down from 2,199th in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Iran (up from 324th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Navvab Safavi ranks 2,427 out of 3,187. Before him are Hugh of Champagne, Calgacus, Catald, Giulio Alenio, Symmachus, and Pancras of Taormina. After him are Wulfhere of Mercia, Aidan of Lindisfarne, Tryphon of Constantinople, Francesco Alidosi, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, and Benito Arias Montano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Navvab Safavi ranks 270. Before him are Aleksandar Tišma, Gloria Vanderbilt, Basil Bernstein, A. B. Bardhan, Marcel Domingo, and František Vláčil. After him are Leslie Phillips, Russell M. Nelson, Azucena Villaflor, Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Max van der Stoel, and Friederike Mayröcker. Among people deceased in 1956, Navvab Safavi ranks 130. Before him are Truxtun Hare, Johannes Gabriel Granö, E. A. Dupont, Helmer Hanssen, Johann Radon, and Paul Renner. After him are Tommy Dorsey, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Hans Carossa, Herminio Masantonio, Vladimir Filatov, and Johannes Jørgensen.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Navvab Safavi ranks 320 out of 631. Before him are Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Al-Birjandi (null), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), Suleiman II of Persia (1714), Kushyar Gilani (971), and Mohsen Rezaee (1954). After him are Alenush Terian (1921), Anousheh Ansari (1966), Sadeq Khan Zand (1800), Luarsab II of Kartli (1592), Ivan Galamian (1903), and Mirza Kuchik Khan (1880).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Navvab Safavi ranks 35. Before him are Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960), Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), Sadegh Khalkhali (1926), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), and Suleiman II of Persia (1714). After him are Luarsab II of Kartli (1592), Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921), Kazim Rashti (1793), and Fakhr-un-Nisa (1092).

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