Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari | |
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![]() Shariatmadari, March 1982 | |
Title | Grand Ayatollah |
Personal | |
Born | 5 January 1906 |
Died | 3 April 1986 | (aged 80)
Religion | Islam |
Era | Modern history |
Creed | Usuli Twelver Shia Islam |
Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (Persian: محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away from governmental positions and was a critic of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini, denouncing the taking hostage of diplomats at the US embassy in Tehran.[1]