Education
One of his three daughters, Zahra Mohaghegh is a University of Maryland graduate: Doctor of Philosophy in Reliability Engineering.
theologian university professor
One of his three daughters, Zahra Mohaghegh is a University of Maryland graduate: Doctor of Philosophy in Reliability Engineering.
He gained some prominence in English-language news sources after he was reported by "reformist Web sites" to have "sought to rally other clerics to oppose the use of moharebeh charges against political protesters," following the conviction and death sentence of Mohammad Amin Valian, a student who threw rocks at a 2009 election demonstration. Larijani brothers have been one of the most powerful families in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. She has been an assistant professor at University of Illinois "Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering Department" since 2013. in Islamic Jurisprudence (1980) from Tehran University.
Following that he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Law (Doctorat en Droit) at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium in 1996.
He reportedly has held such posts in Iran as Chief of the State Inspectorate Organization, head of the Department of Islamic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Iran, head of Commission of Judicial Bill Collection of Iran, and head of Commission of Compiling Judicial Acts. At a September 2005 speech in the United States written up by an Iranian American doctor, he gave his opinions that there are no irreconcilable differences between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Islamic jurisprudence, that no compulsion is permissible in religion, that apostasy should be punished only if it involves undertaking actions to destabilize the social order, and that "nothing should be forced on the people by the government, not even daily prayers.".
In addition he "pursued a modern academic education", receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Philosophy (1969) and an Master of Arts
As of 2007 he was a professor in Faculty of Law at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, and has been a fellow member of The Academy of Sciences of Iran since 1988.