Mostafa Khomeini | |
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مصطفی خمینی | |
 Khomeini in the 1970s | |
| Born | 12 December 1930 |
| Died | 23 October 1977(1977-10-23) (aged 46) |
| Resting place | Najaf |
| Alma mater | Qom Theological Center |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, includingHussein |
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Sayyid Mostafa Khomeini (Persian:سید مصطفی خمینی; 12 December 1930 – 23 October 1977) was anIranian cleric and the eldest son ofRuhollah Khomeini.[1] He died before theIranian Revolution.
Khomeini was born inQom on 12 December 1930.[2] He was the eldest son of Ayatollah Khomeini[3] andKhadijeh Saqafi, daughter of a respected cleric, Hajj Mirza Tehrani.[4]
He graduated from the Qom Theological Center.[2]
Mostafa Khomeini participated in his father's movement.[2] He was arrested and imprisoned after the 1963 events and also, after his father's exile.[5] On 3 January 1965, he joined his father inBursa, Turkey, where he was in exile.[5] Then he lived with his family inNajaf, Iraq, from October 1965.[2][6] There he had contacts with the Iraqi Shia activistHassan Shirazi.[6] Mostafa and his brotherAhmad became part of Khomeini's underground movement.[7] The group also includedMohammad Beheshti andMorteza Motahhari.[7] In 1970 Khomeini asked Hassan Shirazi, who had been released from prison, to go to Lebanon to find individual and institutional supporters.[6] Shirazi carried out this activity in Lebanon until 1974.[6]
Khomeini married Masoumeh Haeri Yazdi (died 2024), a daughter ofMorteza Haeri Yazdi.[8] Khomeini died of a heart attack in Najaf on 23 October 1977.[9][10] His father,Ruhollah Khomeini, did not attend the funeral, due to grief.[9] He was buried in Najaf within the shrine of Imam Ali.[11]
His death has been regarded as suspicious by both the followers of Ayatollah Khomeini and common people of Iran due to his death being announced while he was in police custody and various reports thatSAVAK agents were present at the scene.[12] Hence, his death was attributed to the Shah's secret police, SAVAK.[9][10] His father later described Mostafa's death as a "martyrdom" and one of the "hidden favours" of God, since it fueled the growing discontent with the Shah and finally produced the Iranian Revolution, just slightly more than one year after Mostafa's death.[12][13] Memorial services for Mostafa Khomeini were organized in different cities of Iran which became nationwide protests against the Pahlavi rule.[13]
Like his father, Khomeini was trained in the tradition ofTranscendent Theosophy and is described by some scholars as having developed original contributions toIslamic philosophy. According to secondary studies, he is said to have articulated a number of philosophical ideas in a large work titledal-Qawāʿid al-ḥakamiyyah, which is believed to be lost. His philosophical views have instead been reconstructed through an examination of his extant writings, including works on theology and metaphysics. Scholarly analyses attribute to him approximately fifty distinct philosophical ideas, many of which address topics traditionally shared by theology and philosophy, such as existence and quiddity, mental existence, the division of being, motion, substance and accident, ontology, and causality. These studies situate his thought in dialogue with earlier Islamic philosophers, particularlyMullā Ṣadrā.[14]
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