Ebrahim Amini

Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini (Persian: ابراهیم امینی; June 30, 1925 – April 24, 2020) was an Iranian conservative politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader.[1] Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.[2]

Not to be confused with Seyyed Ebrahim Amini.
Ebrahim Amini
Amini in 2016
Member of the Assembly of Experts
In office
24 May 2016 – 24 April 2020
ConstituencyTehran Province
Majority1,904,524
In office
15 August 1983 – 19 February 2007
ConstituencyChaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
Second Deputy Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
In office
1985–2006
Preceded byMohammad Mehdi Rabbani Amlishi
Succeeded byMohammad Yazdi
Member of the Expediency Discernment Council
In office
17 March 1997 – 24 April 2020
Personal details
Born
Ebrahim Amini Najafabadi

(1925-06-30)June 30, 1925
Najaf Abad, Isfahan Province, Sublime State of Persia
DiedApril 24, 2020(2020-04-24) (aged 94)
Qom, Qom Province, Iran
NationalityIranian
Political partySociety of Seminary Teachers of Qom
Alma materIsfahan Hawza
Qom Seminary
OccupationCleric
Politician
Signature
Websitewww.ibrahimamini.com

Life

Ibrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi was born in 1925 in Najafabad city. He completed his primary education in Najaf Abad and entered Isfahan seminary in 1943 and studied Arabic literature, logic, principles and jurisprudence. In 1944, he migrated to Qom seminary to continue his education, and he studied fiqh and principles from Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Seyyed Mohammad Taqi Khansari, Seyyed Mohammad Hojjat Kohkamri, Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini, and studied the philosophy of Asfar under Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabai.[3] At the beginning of the victory of the revolution, he received two decrees from Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini.[4][5]

Amini was known as a critic of the government of former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.[6]

Amini died in April 2020 at the age of 94, at the Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom.[7]

See also

References
  1. Saeed Kamali Dehghan (31 October 2014), "When the time comes, who will succeed Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?", The Guardian, retrieved 24 February 2017
  2. Seyed Mohammad Lolaki (2019). Diverging Approaches of Political Islamic Thought in Iran since the 1960s. Springer Nature. p. 157. ISBN 978-981-15-0477-8.
  3. "اجازه نامه به آقای ابراهیم امینی نجف‌آبادی، در امور حسبیه و شرعیه‌". سایت جامع امام خمینی.
  4. "حکم به آقای ابراهیم امینی (سرکشی به امور کمیته‌های استان ساحلی)". سایت جامع امام خمینی.
  5. "حکم به آقای ابراهیم امینی (رسیدگی به مشکلات علی‌آباد گرگان و گنبد قابوس)". سایت جامع امام خمینی.
  6. "Who will be the next chair of Iran's Assembly of Experts?". 30 March 2016.
  7. "Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini Passes Away at 94". Ijtihad Network. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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