Word: beheshti
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...often called an Islamic modernizer, and even compared to historical figures who've brought progress to this country. Who are your role models? I think one of the people who has had the most impact on me, certainly in my professional life, is Shahid Beheshti [one of the founding members of the Islamic Republic and its leading jurist and constitutionalist; assassinated in 1981]. He was someone who had lived both in the West as well as in the Qom seminaries. He was an open-minded intellectual fully confident in Islamic teachings as well as Western matters. He was also...