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Iranian Cultural Revolution

Index Iranian Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution (1980–1983) (انقلاب فرهنگی.) was a period following the Iranian Revolution, when the academia of Iran was purged of Western and non-Islamic influences (even traditionalist unpolitical Islamic doctrines) to bring it in line with the revolutionary and Political Islam. [1]

58 relations: Abdolkarim Soroush, Abdulali Ali-Asgari, Ahmad Ahmadi (philosopher), Ahmad Masjed-Jamei, Ali Akbar Rashad, Ali Akbar Velayati, Ali Jannati, Ali Khamenei, Ali Larijani, Ali Shariatmadari, Ali-Asghar Fani, Alireza Arafi, Asadollah Lajevardi, China, Colonialism, Cultural Revolution, Engineering, Farrokhroo Parsa, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Hamid Mirzadeh, Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Hassan Habibi, Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi, Hassan Rouhani, Hezbollah (Iran), Humanities, Iranian Revolution, Isfahan, Islam, Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist, Islamic republic, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Islamic Revolutionary Court, Jalaleddin Farsi, Left-wing politics, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Goudarzi, Mashhad, Mehdi Golshani, Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, Mohammad Farhadi, Mohammad Khatami, Mohammad Reza Aref, Mohammad-Ali Najafi, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Mohsen Qomi, Mostafa Moeen, Muslim conquest of Persia, Nasrollah Pejmanfar, Political Islam, ..., Reza Davari Ardakani, Ruhollah Khomeini, Sadegh Vaez-Zadeh, Sadeq Larijani, Shahindokht Molaverdi, Sorena Sattari, Supreme leader, Treason. Expand index (8 more) »

Abdolkarim Soroush

Abdolkarim Soroush (عبدالكريم سروش; born Hossein Haj Faraj Dabbagh (born 1945; حسين حاج فرج دباغ), is an Iranian Islamic thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar, public intellectual, and a former professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran and Imam Khomeini International University during Islamic regime since he only has a chemistry BS. He is arguably the most influential figure in the religious intellectual movement of Iran. Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. He was also affiliated with other prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, the Leiden-based International Institute as a visiting professor for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. He was named by TIME as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2005, and by Prospect magazine as one of the most influential intellectuals in the world in 2008. Soroush's ideas, founded on Relativism, prompted both supporters and critics to compare his role in reforming Islam to that of Martin Luther in reforming Christianity.

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Abdulali Ali-Asgari

Abdulali Ali-Asgari (عبدالعلی علی‌عسگری; born 1958 in Ray, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian media executive who is the current director-general of IRIB.

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Ahmad Ahmadi (philosopher)

Ahmad Ahmadi (6 September 1933 – 8 June 2018) was an Iranian cleric, Islamic philosopher and politician.

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Ahmad Masjed-Jamei

Ahmad Masjed-Jamei (احمد مسجدجامعی) is an Iranian reformist politician and academic who was chairman of City Council of Tehran from 3 September 2013 until 3 September 2014.

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Ali Akbar Rashad

Ali Akbar Rashad (born 1955) is an Iranian philosopher and Islamic scholar who pioneered the Ibtina Theory, a theory for explaining the process and mechanism of "religious knowledge" formation.

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Ali Akbar Velayati

Ali Akbar Velayati (علی‌اکبر ولایتی; born 24 June 1945, Tehran) is an Iranian physician and conservative politician.

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Ali Jannati

Ali Jannati (علی جنتی, born 1949) is an Iranian politician and former diplomat who is currently serving as the head of Iranian presidential administration since January 7, 2018.

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Ali Khamenei

Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای,; born 17 July 1939) is a ''marja'' and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989.

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Ali Larijani

Ali Larijani (علی لاریجانی,; born 3 June 1957) is an Iranian conservative politician, philosopher and former military officer who has been Speaker of the Parliament of Iran since 2008.

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Ali Shariatmadari

Ali Shariatmadari (1924 – 9 January 2017) was an Iranian academic and educationist who was Minister of Culture in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979.

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Ali-Asghar Fani

Ali Asghar Fani (علی‌اصفر فانی) is an Iranian politician and former Minister of Education.

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Alireza Arafi

Alireza Arafi (علیرضا اعرافی) (born 1959, Meybod) Iranian Shia cleric, Chairman of Al-Mustafa International University, Qom Friday prayer leader and head of Iran's Seminary.

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Asadollah Lajevardi

Sayyed Assadollah Ladjevardi (اسدالله لاجوردی; 1935 – 23 August 1998) was an Iranian conservative politician, prosecutor and warden.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976.

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Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.

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Farrokhroo Parsa

Farokhroo Parsa (فرخ‌رو پارسا; 24 March 1922 – 8 May 1980) was an Iranian physician, educator and parliamentarian.

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Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel

Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel (غلامعلی حداد عادل, born 4 May 1945) is an Iranian philosopher, politician and former chairman of the Parliament.

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Hamid Mirzadeh

Hamid Mirzadeh (حمید میرزاده, born November 29, 1950) is an Iranian politician and academic who is the 3rd and former president of the Islamic Azad University system.

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Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi

Seyyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi (سید حسن قاضی‌زاده هاشمی; born 21 March 1959) is an Iranian ophthalmologist and associate professor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, who is currently serving as the Minister of Health and Medical Education in the administration of President Hassan Rouhani.

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Hassan Habibi

Hassan Ebrahim Habibi (29 January 1937 – 31 January 2013) was an Iranian politician, lawyer, scholar and the first vice president from 1989 until 2001 under Presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami.

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Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi

Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi (حسن رحیم‌پور ازغدی) (born 1964 or 1965) is an Iranian scholar and theorist and member of Iran's Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution.

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Hassan Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani (حسن روحانی,, Standard Persian:; born Hassan Fereydoun (حسن فریدون) on 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician serving as the current and seventh President of Iran since 3 August 2013.

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Hezbollah (Iran)

Hezbollah (lit) is an Iranian movement formed at the time of the Iranian Revolution to assist the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his forces in consolidating power.

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Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.

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Iranian Revolution

The Iranian Revolution (Enqelāb-e Iran; also known as the Islamic Revolution or the 1979 Revolution), Iran Chamber.

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Isfahan

Isfahan (Esfahān), historically also rendered in English as Ispahan, Sepahan, Esfahan or Hispahan, is the capital of Isfahan Province in Iran, located about south of Tehran.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist

Velayat-e faqih (ولایت فقیه, velāyat-e faqīh), also known as Islamic Government (حکومت اسلامی, Hokumat-i Eslami), is a book by the Iranian Muslim cleric, faqīh, and revolutionary Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, first published in 1970, and probably the most influential document written in modern times in support of theocratic rule.

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Islamic republic

An Islamic republic is the name given to several states that are officially ruled by Islamic laws, including the Islamic Republics of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Mauritania.

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Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) (صدا و سيمای جمهوری اسلامی ايران, Sedā va Sīmā-ye Jomhūri-ye Eslāmi-ye Īrān, lit. Voice and Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran), formerly called National Iranian Radio and Television until the Iranian revolution of 1979, is an Iranian media corporation which hold the monopoly of domestic radio and television services in Iran, is also among the largest media organizations in Asian and Pacific region, and a regular member of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.

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Islamic Revolutionary Court

Islamic Revolutionary Court (also Revolutionary Tribunal, Dadgah-ha-e EnqelabBakhash, Shaul, Reign of the Ayatollahs, Basic Books, 1984, p.59-61) is a special system of courts in the Islamic Republic of Iran designed to try those suspected of crimes such as smuggling, blaspheming, inciting violence or trying to overthrow the Islamic government.

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Jalaleddin Farsi

Jaleleddin Farsi (جلال‌الدین فارسی) was an Iranian politician who served as a member of the parliament from 1984 to 1988.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Mahmūd Ahmadinezhād, born Mahmoud Sabbaghian (Sabbāghyān) on 28 October 1956) is an Iranian politician who was the sixth President of Iran from 2005 to 2013.

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Mahmoud Goudarzi

Mahmoud Goudarzi (محمود گودرزی, born c. 1955) is an Iranian politician and former wrestler.

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Mashhad

Mashhad (مشهد), also spelled Mashad or Meshad, is the second most populous city in Iran and the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province.

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Mehdi Golshani

Mehdi Golshani (Persian: مهدی گلشنی, born 1939 in Isfahan, Iran) is a contemporary Iranian theoretical physicist, academic, scholar, philosopher and distinguished professor at Sharif University of Technology.

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Mohammad Bagher Nobakht

Mohammad Bagher Nobakht Haghighi (محمد باقر نوبخت حقیقی; born 13 December 1950 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian politician and economist and currently Hassan Rouhani's adviser for Supervision and Strategic Affairs, Head of Plan and Budget Organization, and also Spokesman of the Government.

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Mohammad Farhadi

Mohammad Farhadi (محمد فرهادی, born 1 January 1949 in Shahroud) is an Iranian physician, politician and former Minister of Science, a position he held from 26 November 2014 until 20 August 2017.

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Mohammad Khatami

Seyyed Mohammad Khatami (سید محمد خاتمی,; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian scholar, Shia theologian, and reformist politician.

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Mohammad Reza Aref

Mohammad Reza Aref (محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who is currently parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr.

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Mohammad-Ali Najafi

Mohammad-Ali Najafi (محمدعلی نجفی; born 13 January 1952) is an Iranian mathematician and reformist politician who was the Mayor of Tehran, serving in the post for eight months, until April 2018.

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Mohammad-Javad Bahonar

Mohammad Javad Bahonar (محمدجواد باهنر, 5 September 1933 – 30 August 1981) was a Shia Iranian theologian and politician who served as the Prime minister of Iran for less than one month in August 1981.

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Mohsen Qomi

Mohsen Qomi (محسن قمی) is an Iranian cleric, conservative politician and a member of the Assembly of Experts.

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Mostafa Moeen

Mostafa Moeen (مصطفی معین; born 1 April 1951 in Najafabad, Isfahan), is an Iranian politician, professor of Pediatrics, and a human right activist which is currently founder and president of Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Iran.

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Muslim conquest of Persia

The Muslim conquest of Persia, also known as the Arab conquest of Iran, led to the end of the Sasanian Empire of Persia in 651 and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Iran (Persia).

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Nasrollah Pejmanfar

Nasrollah Pejmanfar (نصرالله پژمان‌فر) is an Iranian Shi'a cleric and conservative politician who represents Mashhad and Kalat electoral district in the Parliament of Iran since 2012.

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Political Islam

"Political Islam" is a recently developed term used to label the wide-scale activities of individuals or organizations advocating transformation of the state and entire society according to "Islamic" rules.

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Reza Davari Ardakani

Reza Davari Ardakani (رضا داوری اردکانی, born 6 July 1933 in Ardakan) is a prominent Iranian philosopher who was influenced by Martin Heidegger, and a distinguished emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran.

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Ruhollah Khomeini

Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (سید روح‌الله موسوی خمینی; 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Islam religious leader and politician.

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Sadegh Vaez-Zadeh

Sadegh Vaez-Zadeh (born 10 April 1959 in Mashhad) is an Iranian professor, currently teaching at the University of Tehran.

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Sadeq Larijani

Sadeq Ardeshir Larijani (صادق اردشیر لاریجانی; born 12 March 1961), more known as Amoli Larijani (آملی لاریجانی), is an Iranian cleric, conservative politician and the current and fifth head of the judicial system of Iran after the 1979 revolution.

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Shahindokht Molaverdi

Shahindokht Molaverdi (born 23 October 1965) is an Iranian academic, feminist, Jurist, scholar and Special Assistant to the President for Citizenship rights in the second cabinet of Hassan Rouhani.

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Sorena Sattari

Sorena Sattari (سورنا ستاری) is an Iranian scientist, inventor and vice president for science and technology under president Hassan Rouhani.

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Supreme leader

A supreme leader typically refers to the person among a number of leaders of a state, organization or other such group who has been given or is able to exercise the mostor complete authority over it.

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Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Cultural_Revolution

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