Background
Hosein Nuri-Hamadani was born in Hamadan, Iran.
theologian cleric Akhoond grand ayatollah
Hosein Nuri-Hamadani was born in Hamadan, Iran.
He studied in the seminaries of Allameh Tabatabai and Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi.
Nuri-Hamadani has been called a "hard-line cleric," who has expressed his strong disapproval of Sufis and dervishes, Jews, the intellectual Abdolkarim Soroush and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. After finishing elementary studies in Hamadan, at the age of 17 he moved to Qom, Iran to continue his religious studies. He currently resides and teaches in the Seminary of Qom.
After 2009 Iranian presidential election, Hamedani took side with Ahmadinejad and attacked those who questioned the accuracy of the election.
He also issued a fatwa against the attendance of women in stadiums. In early 2008 he issued what some see as an implicit death threat against Iranian intellectual Abdolkarim Soroush, saying “Soroush’s writings are worse than Salman Rushdie’s,” and “Abdolkarim Soroush’s religious theories have undermined the roots of prophecy, the Koran and holy revelations.”
Click here for image.