He left Lucknow in 1830, on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Ali in Najaf, Ottoman Iraq (now Iraq) and never returned.
In 1834 Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi visited Persia, and in 1839 he settled in Khomein.
In 1834 Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi visited Persia, and in 1839 he settled in Khomein.
Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini ( , ; سید روحالله موسوی خمینی ; 17 May 19003 June 1989), also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian political and religious leader.
Khomeini's grandfather, Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed-e Khonsari was the cleric issuing a fatwa to forbid usage of Tobacco during the Tobacco Protest. ===Childhood=== According to his birth certificate, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, whose first name means "spirit of Allah", was born on 17 May 1900 in Khomeyn, Markazi Province although his brother Mortaza (later known as Ayatollah Pasandideh) gives his birth date of 24 September 1902, the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter, Fatimah.
Khomeini's grandfather, Mirza Ahmad Mojtahed-e Khonsari was the cleric issuing a fatwa to forbid usage of Tobacco during the Tobacco Protest. ===Childhood=== According to his birth certificate, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, whose first name means "spirit of Allah", was born on 17 May 1900 in Khomeyn, Markazi Province although his brother Mortaza (later known as Ayatollah Pasandideh) gives his birth date of 24 September 1902, the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter, Fatimah.
His father was murdered in 1903 when Khomeini was two years old.
He was raised by his mother, Hajieh Agha Khanum, and his aunt, Sahebeth, following the murder of his father, Mustapha Musavi, over two years after his birth in 1903. Ruhollah began to study the Qur'an and elementary Persian at the age of six.
In 1920, Khomeini moved to Arak and commenced his studies.
Yazdi died in 1924, but Khomeini continued to pursue his interest in philosophy with two other teachers, Javad Aqa Maleki Tabrizi and Rafi'i Qazvini.
He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the end of the 2,500-year-old Persian monarchy.
He was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1979 for his international influence, and Khomeini has been described as the "virtual face of Shia Islam in Western popular culture".
Most of his reign was taken up by the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988.
In 1982, he survived one military coup attempt.
Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini ( , ; سید روحالله موسوی خمینی ; 17 May 19003 June 1989), also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian political and religious leader.
He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989. Khomeini was born in Khomeyn, in what is now Iran's Markazi Province.
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