Ataollah Mohajerani

Ataollah Mohajerani

Ataollah Mohajerani or Ata'ollah Mohajerani ( Persian عطاءالله مهاجرانی; * 1954 in Arak , Markazi ) is an Iranian politician who held many high offices and author of numerous books on the dialogue between religions and cultures.

Life

From 1996 to 2000 Ataollah Mohajerani was Iranian Minister for Culture and Islamic Leadership (Shhad Minister) in the cabinet of President Mohammad Chātami . Before his resignation, he was considered by some to be 'the main architect of Iran's cultural renaissance'.

Seyyed Mohadscherani is currently one of the representatives of Islam in the nine-member board of the King Abdullah Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna .

He received his BA from Isfahan University and his MA in History and Iranian Culture from Shiraz University . He received his PhD in the history of Islamic history from Tarbiat Modares University .

Mohajerani was a lecturer and academic member of Tarbiat Modarres University in Tehran , member of the High Council of the National UNESCO Commission of Iran, from 2000 to 2003 he was head of the International Center for the Dialogue of Civilizations in Tehran, Iran.

In 2009 Mohajerani left Iran after rumors about his love affairs had spread about him and lives in England with his wife, the Iranian politician and former member of parliament Jamileh Kadivar (جمیله کدیور) .

Quote (on the change of the world by September 11th)

“It is the right of the US and its allies to take action against the Taliban and against Al-Qaeda […] The US even has a special right to do so. You finally made it "

- THE TIME.

Fonts (selection)

• A Critique on the Machination of Satanic Verses (1989 - 20th edition, 2000) (1992 translated into English by Abdulhassan Quds Sharifi, published by Alhoda Publications in Tehran)

Web links

Commons : Ata'ollah Mohajerani  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• kadivar.maktuob.net
• kaiciid.org (short biography) ( King Abdullah Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue )
• answers.com: Gale Encyclopedia of the Mideast & N. Africa: Ataollah Mohajerani
• spiegel.de: Iran: President Chatami nominates confidante
• pbs.org: Mr. Mohajerani goes to Washington
• zeit.de: Solidarity with the Great Satan - Tehran and Terror: A conversation with the Iranian presidential advisor Mohajerani (Matthias Nass) - October 18, 2001
• iranian.com: Iran's Cultural Architect Steps Down (Jonathan Lyons)
• iran-opp.blogspot.de: Dr. Seyyed Ataollah Mohajerani - CV

See also

• Damage
• Jamileh Kadivar
• Mohsen Kadivar

References and footnotes

1. ↑ iranian.com ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "Mohajerani was the chief architect of Iran's cultural renaissance". 
2. ^ Others are Hamad Al-Majed and Mohammad Sammak .
3. ↑ ^{a b} kaiciid.org (short biography)
4. ↑ Christopher de Bellaigue: In the rose garden of the martyrs. A portrait of Iran. From the English by Sigrid Langhaeuser, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006 (English original edition: London 2004), p. 310
5. ↑ zeit.de: Solidarity with the Great Satan - Tehran and Terror: A conversation with the Iranian presidential advisor Mohadscherani (Matthias Nass) - October 18, 2001
6. ↑ iran-opp.blogspot.de: Dr. Seyyed Ataollah Mohajerani - CV , there also other writings

Ataollah Mohajerani (alternative names of the lemma)
Ata'ollah Mohajerani; Seyyed Ataollah Mohajerani; ʻAṭāʼ Allāh Muhāǧirānī; Attaullah Muhajirani