Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi

Grand Ayatollah Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi ( Persian عبدالكريم حائري يزدي; * 1859 ; † January 30, 1937 ) was a famous Shiite clergyman and reformer of theological training.

Life

Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi received his training as a clergyman from Ayatollah Mohammad Hasan Shirazi in Najaf . After the politicization of the Shiite clergy in the then Ottoman Empire steadily increased from 1890 to 1914, Yazdi decided to move to the Arak area in Iran after the outbreak of the First World War . In 1920 he went to Qom ( Iran ) and settled there. In 1922 he founded the Islamic seminary in Qom and planned to make it the most important Shiite training center alongside Najaf.

Among his students were Mohammad Reza Golpayegani and Ruhollah Khomeini .

Quote

Grand Ayatollah Yazdi, along with the Ayatollahs Na'ini and Isfahani, were among the signatories of a telegram to the "ulamā of Tehran" in which they vehemently rejected the idea of the establishment of a republic by Prime Minister Reza Khan :

“Some ideas about the establishment of a republic have been expressed, which is neither the wishes of the people nor the needs of the country. When the Prime Minister came to Qom to bid farewell to the Mujtahids, we asked him to immediately abandon these ideas and not proclaim a republic. He accepted our request. May God grant that everyone welcomes this decision wholeheartedly and with full gratitude. "

Web links

Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)

Individual evidence

↑ Shahrough Akhavi: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy State Relations in the Pahlavi period . State University of New York Press, 1980; P. 27.
↑ Faraj Sarkohi : Holy Turn, Iran loses its power over the Shiites ; The time 12/2004 from March 11, 2004; Retrieved December 21, 2012
↑ Shahrough Akhavi: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy State Relations in the Pahlavi period . State University of New York Press, 1980; P. 29.

personal data
SURNAME	Haeri Yazdi, Abdolkarim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Shiite Grand Ayatollah
DATE OF BIRTH	1859
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1937

[1] Shahrough Akhavi: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy State Relations in the Pahlavi period . State University of New York Press, 1980; P. 27.

[2] Faraj Sarkohi : Holy Turn, Iran loses its power over the Shiites ; The time 12/2004 from March 11, 2004; Retrieved December 21, 2012

[3] Shahrough Akhavi: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy State Relations in the Pahlavi period . State University of New York Press, 1980; P. 29.