Shahid Motahari University (Persian: دانشگاه شهید مطهری) was built in 1879 by Mirza Hosein Sepahsalar (Persian: میرزا حسین سهپسالار). The university is located in Baharestan square in Tehran, Iran.[1]

After the revolution in 1979, Ayatollah Emami-Kashani was appointed as the president of the university. Since then, the university has mostly focused on religious studies and social sciences. It is particularly well-known for its graduate programs in Philosophy, Law, and Islamic Jurisprudence. Admission to the university is only possible through the annual Konkoor.[2]

Some its notable alumni include Ebrahim Raisi (the current President of Iran), Ali Khamenei (the supreme leader of Iran), Massoud Khamenei (the third son of Iran’s supreme leader and a major Shia cleric in his own right), Mohammad Javad Hajaliakbari, (cleric and conservative politician), and Mahdi Khamooshi (president of the Endowment and Charity Affair Organization),[3] as well as numerous other members of the Iranian theocatic intelligentsia and assorted governmental echelons.

References

  1. ↑ تیموری, ابراهیم (2007). "چهارراه سرچشمه تهران". مجله بخارا. ۷۶: ۱۳۵.
  2. ↑ "سازمان سنجش". سازمان سنجش. 2019.
  3. ↑ https://iranpress.com/37th-round-of-international-quran-competition-kicks-off-in-tehran

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