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Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Summary

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	Grand Ayatollah
name	Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani
native_name
native_name_lang	fa
image	اسدالله بیات زنجانی Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani 10 (cropped).jpg
order	Member of the Parliament
term_start	28 May 1984
term_end	28 May 1992
constituency	Zanjan and Tarom
term_start2	28 May 1980
term_end2	28 May 1984
constituency2	Mahneshan and Ijrud
birth_date
birth_place	Zanjan, Iran
alma_mater	Qom Seminary
party	Association of Combatant Clerics

| honorific-prefix = Grand Ayatollah | honorific-suffix = Grand Ayatollah Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani () is an Iranian theologian, Islamic philosopher, writer and Grand marja of Islam. He has published objections to Iran's system of Islamic Jurist Guardianship known as velayat-e faqih, asserting that this system is not founded on Islam.

Biography

Grand Ayatollah Zanjani studied religion in Zanjan and Qom and was promoted to degree of Marja', thus being a mujtahid. Among his teachers were Allameh Tabatabaei, Morteza Motahhari, Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Araki and Golpaygani.

He is author of more than 10 books and is currently teaching Philosophy and religion in Qom Seminary.

Political career

Before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Zanjani was a pro-democracy activist. In 1972, he was arrested and spent a year in prison. After the revolution, he was involved in the launching of the Islamic Republican Party. Zanjani was also a member of the committee to reassess the Iranian constitution. He was elected three times to Iranian parliament where he represented the city of Zanjan.

Grand Ayatollah Zanjani was among the influential clerics who supported ex-prime minister Mousavi and questioned the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency.

In September 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Guidance Patrol, Zanjani said that the Guidance Patrol is “not only an illegal and anti-Islamic body, but also illogical. No part of our country’s laws assigns any mission or responsibility to this vigilante force,” and accused it of committing “repression and immoral acts.”

References

Fassihi, Farnaz. (2022-09-20). "Protests Erupt in Iranian Cities After Woman’s Death in Custody". The New York Times.
[http://www.rahesabz.net/story/7783/ Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani on Wilayat e Faqih]
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/world/middleeast/18clerics.html Clerics May Be Key to Outcome of Unrest] nytimes.com
[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/17/senior-ayatollahs-say-irans-morality-police-illegal-un-islamic/ Senior ayatollahs say Iran's morality police are 'illegal and un-Islamic' - Telegraph]

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