Mohsen Araki
Mohsen Araki | |
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Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
Assumed office 20 September 2022 | |
Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
Chairman | Sadeq Larijani |
Personal details | |
Born | 1956 Najaf, Iraq |
Website | Official website |
Mohsen Araki (Persian: محسن اراکی; Arabic: محسن الأراكي) is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer, and politician. He is a member of the Assembly of Experts , and also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, in Iran.He is a prominent Iranian scholar and one of the students of the Islamic thinker Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr.
Life
He was born in Najaf, Iraq. He benefited from the Islamic seminary in Najaf and Qom. He speaks fluent Arabic and English and has authored dozens of books in Persian, Arabic, and English. He was the personal representative of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (the Supreme Leader of Iran) in London and also the Head of the Islamic Centre of England until 2004.[1]
Works
Causality and Freedom (Al-Tawhid, Volume 17, n.2, Spring 2003)