Ali Shariatmadari

Ali Shariatmadari (1924 – 9 January 2017) was an Iranian academic and educationist who was Minister of Culture in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. He was President of the Iranian Academy of Sciences from 1990 until 1998. He was also a Professor of Education at the Teacher Training University in Tehran and a member of High Council of the Cultural Revolution from 1982 until his death.

Ali Shariatmadari
Minister of Culture and Higher Education
In office
5 February 1979 – 6 October 1979
Prime MinisterMehdi Bazargan
Preceded byShamsoddin Mofidi
Succeeded byHassan Habibi
Personal details
Born1924 (1924)
Shiraz, Iran
Died9 January 2017(2017-01-09) (aged 93)
Shiraz, Iran
Political partyParty of the Iranian People (1962–1979)
Alma materUniversity of Michigan

He graduated with a BA in Law from University of Tehran in 1951 and went on to complete his higher education in the United States, gaining an MA in Secondary School Education at the University of Michigan in 1957.

While an academic at Shiraz University, Shariatmadari spent four months in solitary confinement as a result of supporting a student demonstration against French actions in Algeria during a visit by the Shah to the city.

With the advent of the Islamic revolution in 1979, he was made Minister of Culture in Mehdi Bazargan's interim government. Bazargan and his entire cabinet resigned in November 1979, after the Ayatollah Khomeini's advisers supported the student occupation of the US embassy in Tehran. The government had made assurances that it would end the hostage crisis.[1]

Subsequently, he was tasked, together with Mostafa Moein, Ahmad Ahmadi and Abdolkarim Soroush, with training and vetting professors, selecting students, and Islamizing universities and their curricula.[2]

Shariatmadari died on 9 January 2017, aged 93.[3]

References
  1. Teltsch, Kathleen (7 November 1979). "Bazargan Resignation Follows Long Internal Fight". The New York Times.
  2. Samii, Bill (22 October 2004). "Analysis: Disunited Reformist Front In Iran Seeks Presidential Candidate". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  3. "علی شریعتمداری درگذشت". Fars News Agency (in Persian). 9 January 2017. Retrieved 2017-01-09.


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