Morteza Motahhari

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Morteza Motahhari

Morteza Motahhari ( Persian مرتضی مطهری; * February 3, 1920 ; † May 1 or May 3, 1979 ) was a Shiite clergyman with the religious title Ayatollah and an Iranian politician.

Morteza Motahhari taught philosophy at the University of Tehran and was the right-hand man and leading member of the Revolutionary Council in the French exile of the revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini . In the famous photo of the revolutionary leader's return home on February 1, 1979, Motahhari stands behind Khomeini. Motahhari died in an assassination attempt by the religiously oriented " Forghān group " ( true Koran ).

Motahhari's attitude towards the desired appearance of the Shia - a democratic and limited-power leadership of legal scholars - contradicted Khomeini's attitude, the leadership of an absolute legal scholar .

Hasan Yusefi Eschkewari describes the censorship of a text by Motahhari under Khomeini from 1979 with the title Fundamentals of Economics . Even today his religious writings, also translated into German, are widespread among Muslims.

Motahhari was the father-in-law of Ali Larijani . His son Ali Motahhari is leader of the Iranian parliamentary elections in 2012 antretenden party voice of the people (Sedaje Mellat).

Publications (selection)

  • The martyr . Tehran 1979. Excerpt:
Islam is in absolute contradiction to lethargy and parasitism and regards hard work as a basic duty.
  • Basics of economics . Tehran 1979. Excerpt:
Capitalism is a new phenomenon and therefore demands new solutions.
  • "The Islamic Movements in the 14th Century of Hijra . Study and Analysis" ( Al-Ḥarakāt al-islāmīya fi l-qarn ar-rābiʿ ʿašar al-hiǧrī. Dirāsa wa-taḥlīl ), essay in Arabic, published posthumously in 1980 in Tehran who deals in large part with the reform movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which were sustained by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani , Muhammad Abduh , ʿAbd ar-Rahmān al-Kawākibī and Muhammad Iqbal .

literature

  • Abdol Reza Navah, The "Islamic-Western Contrast" in the Image of Man in Contemporary Contributions in Iran, with special emphasis on Motahhari and Schariati , Phil. Diss. Kiel, 1987

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ali Schirasi , February 13, 2012: Iran: Elections are coming soon (with current photo by Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel and Ali Akbar Velayati )
personal data
SURNAME Motahhari, Morteza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Shiite clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1920
DATE OF DEATH May 1979