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7 unusual facts about Qom


Aga Khan I

The Imam Hasan Ali Shah was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati (d. 1815), a poet and a Ni‘mat Allahi Sufi.

Gary Legenhausen

He has been an advocate of interfaith dialogue, and serves on the advisory board of the Society for Religious Studies in Qom.

Islamic revival

Khomeini and Tabatabaei taught many students who have achieved high positions in the Hawza of Qom.

Military campaigns under Caliph Uthman

The army first entered Qom, which surrendered to them and they then advanced to Tamlisa, a coastal town.

Nasser Zahedi

Nasser Zahedi (born 20 May 1961, in Qom, Iran) is a German Doctor of Medicine, Author, Translator, and Photographer from Iran.

Nikolai Baratov

With the occupation of Qom and Kermanshah, the Russian forces under Baratov effectively isolated Persia from Ottoman Turkey, thus securing Persia for the Entente Powers.

Qom University of Medical Sciences

In coincidence with the city of Qom( in Iran) being a province and along with promotion of Qom health care community, a subordinate center of Tehran University of Medical Sciences and in charge of health care system in Qom before then, to School of Medicine and Medical Services, the Qom University of Medical Sciences was established in 1996.


Ali Akbar Rashad

Having completed all the ternary grades of the seminary, he attended Khârij and the principles of jurisprudence classes of Grand Ayatollahs Vahid Khorasani, Ali Meshkini, Hosein Ali Montazeri (all in Qom), and Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Mojtaba Tehrani (in Tehran) for a total of twenty five years.

Ali Akbar Rashad is a graduate of Tehran and Qom Islmaic seminaries; he completed his introductory and first grade (studies based on textbooks) of Islmaic seminary education under the supervision ofKamali, Mohammadzadeh Mazinâni, Ali Afkhami (Afkham Rezâyi), Ayatollah Zanjani Najafi, Ayatollah Abd-os-Samad Khooyi in Tehran between 1967 and 1970.

Chastity House

A supporter of the plan, Ayatollah Mohammed Mousavi Bojnurdi, said: "We face a real challenge with all these women on the street. Our society is in an emergency situation.” Hojatolislam Mohammed Taghi Fazel-Meibodi, a member of Qom Seminary, said the proposal is religiously legal. He said, "Our young people are troubled.

Khatam

Samples of these can be observed in the cities of Mahshad, Qom, Shiraz and Rey.

Majid Abdolhosseini

Majid Abdolhosseini, Alireza Katiraei , Mehdi Jafari , Saeed ashtian and Mehdi amozadeh athletes of full medals in 1991’s (1370) and early 2000’s (1380) and most glorious athletes of history of Qom city are considered.

Mariam Dadiani

The Iranian officials at Tbilisi sent his remains to be buried in Qom, the "holy city" of Shia Islam, and ordered the queen dowager Mariam to relocate to the citadel of Tbilisi.

Saba Qom F.C.

, and was moved to Qom in 2007, although they were formerly registered as a team from Tehran playing at Shahid Derakhshan Stadium of Robat Karim.

Tafsir Shobar

A copy of the manuscript from the author’s time is available in Qom in Sayyid Mar'ashi Najafi's library.

Zohreh Sefati

Sefati has also co-founded a theology school for women in Qom, which later became known as Maktab-e Tawhid.


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