Mohammad Khamenei

Seyyed Mohammad Khamenei was born on 25 December 1935 [4] to a religious family in Mashhad. He is the oldest son of Javad Khamenei and Khadijeh Mirdamadi. He is the older brother of current Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei. He studied religious sciences and Arabic with his father at a young age, when he was 12 he started studying Tajweed and the meanings and interpretation of the Quran at Nawab School in Howzah in Mashhad a with teachers such as Ayatollah Mohammad Hadi al-Milani, Ayatollah Hashem Qazvini, Ayatollah Mirza Javad Tehrani. In 1955 he went to Qom where he was taught philosophy with Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, and other subjects with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Hossein Borujerdi. In 1964 he graduated from Tehran School of Law and Political Science in Criminal Justice. [5] [6]

On 10 January 1982, gunmen opened fire on Seyyed Mohammad Khamenei as he was leaving the assembly. He was shot in the back by the assailants and spent some time in hospital to recover from his injuries. However, his two bodyguards died during the attack. [10]

Seyyed Mohammad Khamenei resigned from political activities after the end of his second term in the Islamic Consultative Assembly and primarily focused on Islamic Philosophy, and Islamic Sciences. He was one of the founders of the Sadra Islamic Wisdom Foundation in 2000. Here he focused on his Islamic Sciences, as they have several departments that have been active since. He has also been in involved with research and teaching in Allameh Tabataba'i University, School of International Relations, Al-Zahra University and Islamic Azad University.

He has both translated and written many books such as. [11]

• Secrets of the Earth in the Quran (Translated from English)
• Insurance in Islamic Law (Translated from Arabic)
• Religion and Theology (Written)
• Judicial Sciences (Written)
• Spirit and Soul (Written)
• Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy (Written)
• Philosophy of being a Woman (Written)
• Imam Ali and World Peace (Written)
• Mulla Sadra’s Life, Character, and Philosophy (Written)
• Characteristics of the Islamic Worldview (Translated from Arabic)
• The Course of Wisdom in Iran and the World (Written)

And many more.

Seyyed Mohammad Khamenei has also done some research into the philosophy, wisdom, and history of Ancient Iran (Pre-Islamic Iran). He published a book about this called 'The Cours of Wisdom in Iran and the World'. [11] Currently he is the president of the Iranology Foundation, and said in an event held by Sadra Islamic Wisdom Foundation:[12]

In ancient Iran, whether Aryan or indigenous Iranian governments (such as the Elamites or the northern Caspians or the Manichaean civilizations and the central regions in Kashan and Kerman) are all the founders of rich cultures and the production of science and art. And have typically been promoters of monotheism and morality. For example, Cyrus the Great and his son, with their seemingly military cultural jihad, spread monotheism in Mesopotamia, Sumer, Egypt, and Athens (Greece), and the clergy of that time were the greatest scientists and philosophers of their time.

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