In Ramadan 1974, in the Imam Hasan Mosque in Mashhad, a young scholar named Sayyid Ali Khamenei — under surveillance by the Shah’s security services and barred from the pulpit elsewhere — delivered twenty-eight lectures presenting a complete outline of Islamic thought drawn directly from the Qur’an. Across four parts — Faith, Tawhid, Prophethood, and Wilayah — he argues that Islamic belief is not a set of abstract doctrines but a program for building a just society.
In Ramadan 1974, in the Imam Hasan Mosque in Mashhad, a young scholar named Sayyid Ali Khamenei — under surveillance by the Shah’s security services and barred from the pulpit elsewhere — delivered twenty-eight lectures presenting a complete outline of Islamic thought drawn directly from the Qur’an. Across four parts — Faith, Tawhid, Prophethood, and Wilayah — he argues that Islamic belief is not a set of abstract doctrines but a program for building a just society.