While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed ...

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Khomeini was the first Islamic cleric to hold the title of “Supreme Leader” in Iran’s Islamic Republic. He was vital in overthrowing Iran’s ruling Shah in the country’s 1979 revolution .

On 27 January, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, ... "I go in and there was this large dining room empty except for this one guy sitting at a table, ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was exiled from Iran in the mid-1960s, after a crackdown on his teachings by the Shah. After a brief time in Turkey he moved to Iraq, but was later expelled from the ...

Khomeini, better known as Imam Khomeini, was the founder of the Islamic Republic and leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ended autocratic rule. The main ceremony is held at his mausoleum in ...

Khomeini provided an answer—the responsibilities of the inerrant imam were to be, in effect, delegated to the jurists, and then more specifically to the jurist. It just so happened that Khomeini ...

On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini -- the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution -- returned triumphantly to Tehran on an Air France flight from Paris after 14 years in exile.

Apart from Iran’s Islamic revolution, for which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini could claim only partial credit, his most momentous achievement was the February 1989 fatwa against author Salman Rushdie.