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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global governance and world order > global religion > key people in global religion > Muhammad Mujtahid-Shabistari
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Muhammad Mujtahid-Shabistari  

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  • Muhammad Mujtahid-Shabistari is a contemporary Shi'a Muslim theologian who is one of the leading thinkers behind the reform movement challenging the clergy's political supremecy in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Born to a clerical family, Muhammad Mujtahid-Shabistari entered the Qum seminary at the age of 14 and pursued his religious studies for the next 18 years. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Mujtahid-Shabistari, Muhammad (b. 1937)]

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