IRSHAD | Daily Archive | 14th June, 2012

Archive | June 14, 2012

Morteza Motahhari (مرتضی مطهری) and Criticisms of Shi’i Clerical Establishment: Some Thoughts on Sahm Al-Imam (سهم الإمام)

June 14, 2012

Morteza Mothhari (1920-1979) is widely acknowledged as having played a seminal role in the build-up to the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979. Born in 1920 in a small village not too far from Mashad, the capital of Khorsan province, Mothhari grew up deeply influenced by his study of philosophy. (Dabashi, 148). His major contribution was a […]