Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi

Abdulkarim Haeri Yazdi Ayatollah (Persian عبدالكريم حائري يزدي; * 1859 † January 30, 1937 ) was a famous Shiite cleric and reformer of theological education.

Life

Abdulkarim Haeri Yazdi was educated for the clergy by Ayatollah Mohammad Hasan Shirazi in Najaf. After the politicization of the Shia clergy in the former Ottoman Empire steadily in the period 1890-1914 increased to Yazdi decided after the outbreak of the First World War in Iran in the area of Arak draw. In 1920 he went to Qom and settled there. He founded in 1922 the Islamic seminary of Qom (Iran) and was planning to make this addition to the main Shiite Najaf training center.

Among his students, Mohammad Reza Golpayegani Ruhollah Khomeini and were.

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Grand Ayatollah Yazdi counted together with the ayatollahs Na'ini Isfahani and among the signatories of a telegram to the ' ulama of Tehran ", in which they rejected the idea of ​​a republic established by Prime Minister Reza Khan vehemently:

"It expressed some ideas regarding the establishment of a republic, which corresponds neither to the wishes of the people nor the needs of the country. As the Prime Minister to Qom came to say goodbye to the mujtahids, we called on him to abandon these ideas immediately and proclaim a republic. He has accepted our request. May God grant that anyone full decision and completely welcomed with gratitude. "