Ali Dashti

Ali Dashti (Persian علی دشتی [ æli ː dæʃti ː ]; * 1896 in Dashtestan ( in the province of Bushehr (Iran) ), † 1984) was a Shiite scholar, journalist and member of the Edalat Party ( Justice Party ) in Iran.

Life

Ali Dashti was born in 1896 in Dashtestan in a Shiite religious family. His father Sheikh Abdul Hussein Dashtestani was a clergyman and enabled him to Karbala and Najaf, a theology and history studies at Shiite theological theology schools. In 1918 he returned to his home and there was the garb of Islamic scholars, until he decided against a career as a clergyman and devoted himself to journalism.

Work

In 1919 he was imprisoned for critical articles on the closed after the end of World War I between the British and Anglo- Iranian Iranian government contract for a short time. For thirteen years, from 1922 to 1935, was Ali Dashti editor of the newspaper he founded Shafaq -e Sorkh ( Red Dawn ). In 1927, he received an invitation for the tenth anniversary of the communist October Revolution in the Soviet Union. 1928 won the election to the Dashti for Bushehr (near his birthplace located ) in the Persian Parliament. A re-arrest in 1935 led to a further fourteen months of house arrest. From 1939 and 1941-1943, he was again a member of parliament for the district Damavand ( near Tehran ). In 1946, he acted to six months imprisonment, a because he had taken a stand against the issue of an oil concessions to the Soviet Union. There followed a two -year stay in France from 1946 until 1948. 1954 he was appointed by the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of the Iranian Senate Senator, the second parliamentary chamber of Iran.

Positions

Dashti had only very generally defends rational thought before 1937 and criticized the blind faith, because faith can human reason and common sense, including the understanding of learned scientists dull. As of March 1973, the Islam-critical manuscript " 23 years " was published in the journal Kaweh in the feuilleton section, starting with the number 45 in sequels. The manuscript was created in 1937, but was not published until 1973. Dashti turned in his text later published as a book in Beirut against the belief in miracles of Muslims and denied that the Koran from God come from myself. Dashti said that the Quran contains nothing really new what had not been told before or are written by others. The stories contained in the Koran either originated from texts of the Jews or Christians, whose clergy had Mohammad hit several times on his trips to Syria, and from the oral tradition Arab tribes, so Dashti in " 23 years ".

Murder

1979, the first year of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Dashti was arrested and deported to an unknown prison. He succumbed to the injuries suffered in custody after three years in prison in 1981 in a hospital. According to Ibn Warraq Dashti was allegedly tortured at an age of 83 years.

See also

Works

Dashti was the author of many books, of which only a few:

  • 23 Years - The career of the Prophet Muhammad. Alibri Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2003, ISBN 3-932710-80-0
  • In Search of Omar Khayyam. Translated from the Persian by L.P.elwell - Sutton. Columbia University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-231-03188-2.
  • Ayyam -e Mahbas ( prison days)
  • Collections of short stories: Fetne (1943, 1949)
  • Saye (1946 )
  • Jadu (1951 )
  • Hendu (1955 )
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