1. Mahmoud Taleghani was Tehran's first Friday Prayer Imam after the Iranian Revolution.
15 Facts About Mahmoud Taleghani
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Mahmoud Taleghani continued his studies in Qom, studying the same subject at the Razaviya and Feyziyeh schools.
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Mahmoud Taleghani obtained his Ijtihad Certification from his teachers, Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani and Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi, there.
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Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani had the responsibility of educating revolutionary folks from the very beginning.
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Mahmoud Taleghani traveled abroad to Jordan and Egypt in 1951 and 1952, to the Peoples Muslim Congress in Karachi, and twice to Jerusalem as the head of an Iranian delegation to the annual Islamic Congress of Quds.
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Mahmoud Taleghani supported Mohammed Mosaddeq's nationalization of the oil industry.
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Politically active from his student days, Mahmoud Taleghani was a veteran in the struggle against the Pahlavi regime.
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Mahmoud Taleghani was imprisoned on several occasions over the decades, "as a young preacher, as a mid-ranking cleric, and as a senior religious leader just before the revolution," and served a total of a dozen years in prison.
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Mahmoud Taleghani argued that colonization was a primary reason of totalitarianism and dictatorship in different countries.
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Mahmoud Taleghani emphasized the resistance against Israel, and travelled many times to Palestine.
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Mahmoud Taleghani is the source of belief, sincerity, determination and honesty.
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Mahmoud Taleghani emphasized the continuous form of the Quran, and the strict relation between the verses of the Quran.
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Mahmoud Taleghani insisted that believers have to contemplate the meaning of the verses of the Quran.
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Mahmoud Taleghani sought to translate and explain the Nahj al-Balagha against the grain of contemporary social analyses and phenomena.
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Two sons of Mahmoud Taleghani claimed that he was murdered but this claim was not proven.