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Mahmoud Taleghani

1911 - 1979

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Sayyid Mahmoud Alaei Taleghani (Persian: سید محمود طالقانی, , also romanized as Mahmūd Tāleqānī; 5 March 1911 – 9 September 1979) was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate, a senior Shia Islamic scholar and thinker of Iran, and a leader in his own right of the movement against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. A founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, he has been described as a representative of the tendency of many "Shia clerics to blend Shia with Marxist ideals in order to compete with leftist movements for youthful supporters" during the 1960s and 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmoud Taleghani has received more than 157,758 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mahmoud Taleghani is the 413th most popular social activist (down from 377th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from Iran (down from 305th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Iranian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 413 out of 840. Before him are Borys Romanchenko, Louise Bryant, Yagan, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Miroslav Tyrš, and Mary Harris Jones. After him are Shireen Abu Akleh, Mary Edwards Walker, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mary Dyer, Samantha Smith, and Giuseppe Pinelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 188. Before him are Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, Nicolae Kovács, Juan Carlos Zabala, Maurice Schumann, André Navarra, and Willem Johan Kolff. After him are Ralph Kirkpatrick, Mutara III Rudahigwa, Gavriil Kachalin, Paul Pietsch, Gustave Gilbert, and Lisa Fonssagrives. Among people deceased in 1979, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 158. Before him are Vilho Niittymaa, Joan Blondell, Jack Haley, Lothar Wolleh, Antonina Makarova, and Alfred Deller. After him are Rebecca Clarke, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, František Kriegel, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Antonio María Barbieri, and Marcel Jouhandeau.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 345 out of 631. Before him are Hafiz-i Abru (null), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Gholam Reza Azhari (1912), Cassandra Clare (1973), Simin Daneshvar (1921), and Anousheh Ansari (1966). After him are Iraj Mirza (1874), Mohsen Rezaee (1954), Fazlullah Nouri (1843), Haj Ali Razmara (1901), Bahram Beyzai (1938), and Shapur IV (null).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Iran

Among social activists born in Iran, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 8. Before him are Babak Khorramdin (798), Narges Mohammadi (1972), Musa al-Sadr (1928), Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (1899), Massoud Rajavi (1948), and Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963). After him are Mina Ahadi (1956), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Maryam Namazie (1966), Reyhaneh Jabbari (1988), Zahra Eshraghi (1964), and Ruhollah Zam (1978).

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