Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari

Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
Shariatmadari, March 1982
TitleGrand Ayatollah
Personal
Born5 January 1906
Died3 April 1986(1986-04-03) (aged 80)
ReligionIslam
EraModern history
CreedUsuli Twelver Shia Islam
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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]

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