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Ebrahim Amini
Iranian Ayatollah (1925-2020) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini (Persian: ابراهیم امینی; June 30, 1925 – April 24, 2020) was an Iranian conservative politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader.[1] Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.[2]
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Life
Ibrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi was born in 1925 in Najafabad city. He completed his primary education in Najaf Abad and entered Isfahan seminary in 1943 and studied Arabic literature, logic, principles and jurisprudence. In 1944, he migrated to Qom seminary to continue his education, and he studied fiqh and principles from Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Seyyed Mohammad Taqi Khansari, Seyyed Mohammad Hojjat Kohkamri, Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini, and studied the philosophy of Asfar under Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabai.[3] At the beginning of the victory of the revolution, he received two decrees from Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini.[4][5]
Amini was known as a critic of the government of former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.[6]
Amini died in April 2020 at the age of 94, at the Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom.[7]
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