Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel (غلامعلی حداد عادل in Persian) born in 1945 in Tehran, Iran, is the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran.
While officially ranking 30th in the Iran Majlis election, 2000 after some recounts by the Council of Guardians, he collected the most votes from Tehran four years later, in Iran Majlis election, 2004, when many reformists where not allowed to run. He became the Speaker of Majlis for one year on June 6, 2004, with 226 votes out of 259. There was no other candidate running.
Haddad-Adel got his PhD in philosophy from University of Tehran in 1975, and has a BSc and an MSc in Physics, respectively from University of Tehran and University of Shiraz. He had also studied Islamic philosophy under Morteza Motahhari. He is a critic of Ali Shariati's viewpoints on Safavid Shiism, and promotes a conservative order active in culture and intellect.
After the Islamic Revolution, he has served in many governmental posts, including Vice Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Vice Minister of Education, the head of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature (until August 2004), and Executive Director of Islamic Encyclopedia Foundation. He has also helped start the national scientific olympiads in Iran.
He's currently a member of Academy of Persian Language and Literature, High Council of Cultural Revolution, and Expediency Discernment Council.
Haddad-Adel's daughter has married the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. Some believe that this makes him counted among the few very trusted allies of Ayatollah Khamenei.
Publications
Books
- Farhang-e Berahnegi va Berahnegi-e Farhangi (Nudity Culture or Cultural Nudity), Soroush, Tehran, 1980, translated to Urdu, Arabic, and Turkish.
- Haj: Namaaz-e Bozorg (Hajj: the Grand Prayer), Sana, Tehran, 2000.
- Daaneshnaame-ye Jahaan-e Eslam (The Encyclopedia of the Islamic World), Islamic Encyclopedia Foundation, Volumes 2-6 (as superviser), 1996-2001.
- Textbooks on sociology, social science, civil studies and Koran, for high school and guidance schools.
Translations
- Tamhidaat: Moghaddame-i baraaye har Maa-ba'd-ot-tabi'e-ye Aayande ke be onvaan-e yek Elm Arze Shavad, a translation of Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics, Iran University Press, Tehran, 1988.
- Nazariye-ye Ma'refat dar Falsafe-ye Kaant, a translation of Justus Hartnack's Kant's Theory of Knowledge, Fekr-e Rooz, Tehran, 2000.