ʿAli Shariʿati

ʿAli Shariʿati (born 1933, Mazīnān, Iran—died June 19[?], 1977, England) was an Iranian intellectual and critic of the regime of the shah (Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi). Shariʿati developed a new perspective on the history and sociology of Islam and gave highly charged lectures in Tehrān that laid the foundation for the Iranian revolution of 1979. Shariʿati received early training in religion from his father before attending a teachers college. He later studied at the University...