About Abdolnabi Namazi
Lived 1948 – 2024 (aged 75–76). Abdolnabi Namazi was an Iranian judge, literary scholar, politician, cleric, akhoond and theologian.
Abdul Nabi Namazi (; 1948 – 28 January 2024) was an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric and politician. He was a member of the 2nd and 3rd Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from Bushehr province. He was re-elected for the 4th and 5th Assemblies, from Tehran province and Isfahan province respectively.
Biography Born in 1948, Namazi was the prosecutor-general for the judiciary of the Islamic Republic and received some notoriety in 2002 when he was criticized by the conservative newspaper Jumhuri Eslami, for "flagrantly" ignoring Supreme Leaders Ali Khamenei's order to review a death sentence handed down to Hashem Aghajari for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics.
Namazi died on 28 January 2024.
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Iranian cleric (1948–2024)
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Abdolnabi Namazi was born in 1948 in Bushehr.
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Abdolnabi Namazi died on 28 January 2024 in Qom.
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Abdolnabi Namazi was a judge, literary scholar, politician, cleric, akhoond and theologian.
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Abdolnabi Namazi was Iranian.
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