Khomeini in Najaf: The Religious and Political Leadership of an Exiled Ayatollah
The thirteen years Khomeini spent in exile in the Iraqi shrine city of Najaf is still a little-known page of his life. Based on a collection of published interviews with Iranian clerics, this article explores the social mechanisms of his growing authority, both as a religious scholar and a revolutio...
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Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2015, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-248 |
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Shiʿism
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Najaf
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Khomeini
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