Haghani Circle
The Haghani School (also Haghani seminar and Haqqani circle; persian مدرسه حقانی, DMG madrese Haqqani ) is a Shiite training facility in the Iranian city of Qom. Emerged from it are high-ranking politicians and clerics in Iran, many of which are classified as extremist.
History
Founded in 1964 by Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, Ayatollah Ahmad Dschannati, Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Ayatollah Ayatollah Taleghani and Sadoughi Haghani School arose from the previous Haghani seminar, a forerunner institution was called Muntashiriya. After the successful assassination of the influential Ali and Mohammad Beheshti Qudusi the official name in Shahidayn seminar ( martyr seminar) has been changed.
The original aim was to strengthen the philosophy within the Hawza curriculum. To this end, Allameh Tabatabai was commissioned to write two introductions, which he completed in 1975:
- Bidayat al - Hikmah (1970 )
- Nichayat al - Hikmah (1975 )
Today in the seminar is both a traditional and a modern curriculum taught, including the Natural Sciences, Medicine, Politics and Western non-Islamic philosophy.
The seminar will be described as a kind École nationale d'administration of the Islamic Republic, whose alumni the backbone that provides clergy, which sit at the key points of the policy and the security services of Iran. Under President Ahmadinejad numerous influential positions were filled by Haghani - students. While during the Iran elections, it is customary to visit that candidate to be elected Qom to pay money to honor the religious leaders of the Haghani to reach for their blessing. According to other sources, most Haghani graduates either serve in the security forces or the military.
The journalist Tim Rutten describes the " Haghani as particularly aggressive school of radical Shia Islam who live in the expectation of the imminent appearance of the Mahdi ." The Mahdi is a kind of Islamic messiah, what peace and justice connected with a universal Islamic law, the whole world will bring. Members of this school - so Rutten - believe that they need to speed up the coming of the Mahdi.
Members
Numerous well-known theologians and influential people in the Iranian politics after the 1979 revolution were teachers or students of Haghani school.
- Ayatollah Ahmad Ahmadi
- General Allah Karam
- Hodschatoleslam Alizadeh
- Ayatollah Amoli Dschavadi
- Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, under Khomeini before his death second most powerful politician in Iran
- Mostafa Ebrahimifar
- Gholam Hossein Mohseni - - Edschei (former Minister of MOIS )
- Mohsen Mohammadi Eraqi
- Hodschatoleslam Eslami
- Hodschatoleslam Ezzat Panah -
- Hodschatoleslam Faker
- Hodschatoleslam Fallah
- Ali Fallahian (former Minister of MOIS and Prosecutor of the Special Court for the Clergy, is wanted in Germany and Interpol arrest warrant )
- Rouhollah Hosseinian
- Ahmad Dschannati
- Gholam Hossein Karbaschi
- Ahmad Khatami
- Ayatollah Sayyed Hasan Taheri Khorramabadi
- Hodschatoleslam Meravi
- Hodschatoleslam Mir- Sepah
- Hodschatoleslam Moalla
- Hodschatoleslam Mobascheri
- Hodschatoleslam Mohammadi Eraghi
- Gholam Reza Naghdi
- Abbas Salimi Namin
- Hodschatoleslam Neeiazi
- Hodschatoleslam Nezam -Zadeh
- Mostafa Pourmohammadi (former Interior Minister )
- Hodschatoleslam Rahbar
- Hodschatoleslam Raieesi
- Hodschatoleslam Ramandi
- Hodschatoleslam Razini
- Mohammadi Reyschahri (former Minister of MOIS and Prosecutor of the Special Court for the Clergy )
- Hodschatoleslam Sadeqi
- Hasan Schaianfar
- Hossein Shariatmadari
- Ali Younesi (former Minister of MOIS )
- Sadeq Ziarati
- General Zolghadr
- Mojtaba Zonnur