Mohsen Araki
Mohsen Araki | |
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Born | 1956 |
Religion | Twelver Shi'a Islam |
Other names | محسن اراکی |
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Website | Official website |
Ayatollah Sheikh 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 in Iran, and a prominent Iranian cleric and one of the students of the Islamic thinker Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr. He is believed to be in line to be the next Rahbar according to a source in Birmingham, UK.
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)