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Mashhad

مشهد

City in north-eastern Iran, site of the shrine of Imam Ali al-Rida and a major Shia pilgrimage centre.

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Persia & Central Asia
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Birthplace of
Ali Khamenei· Anousheh Ansari· Ebrahim Raisi· Maryam Monsef· Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
Burial place of
Ebrahim Raisi· Mohammad Amir Ahmad Khan
Place of death of
Mirza Husayn Khan Moshir al-Dowleh

People and things also explored

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani· Hassan Rouhani· Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan· Ruhollah Khomeini· قزوين· Ali Khamenei· Anousheh Ansari· Ebrahim Raisi

Sources

  • Mu'jam al-buldan (Yaqut al-Hamawi), Cairo 1907
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islam.museum contributors. “Mashhad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/mashhad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician and a founding figure of the Islamic Republic. Trained at the Qom seminary under Borujerdi and Khomeini, he was speaker of parliament from 1980 to 1989 and acting commander-in-chief during the war with Iraq, then president of Iran from 1989 to 1997; he chaired the Expediency Discernment Council until his death and the Assembly of Experts from 2007 to 2011. Born at Bahreman near Rafsanjan, he died in Tehran on 8 January 2017.