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Sayyed Abol-Ghasem Mostafavi-Kashani (Persian: سید ابوالقاسم کاشانی Abu’l-Qāsem Kāšāni; 19 November 1882 – 13 March 1962) was an Iranian politician and Shia Marja. He played an important role in the 1953 coup in Iran and the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.[1] His father, Ayatollah Hajj Seyyed Mostafavi Kashani (Persian: آیت‌الله حاج سید مصطفوی کاشانی), was a noted scholar of Islam in his time. Abol-Ghasem was trained in Shia Islam by his religious parents and began study of the Quran soon after learning to read and write. At 16, Abol-Ghasem went to an Islamic seminary to study literature, Arabic language, logic, semantics and speech, as well as the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, or Fiqh. He continued his education at the seminary in Najaf in the Qur'an and Hadiths as interpreted in Sharia law, receiving his jurisprudence degree when he was 25. Kashani had 3 wives and 19 children, including 7 sons and 12 daughters.[2] His son Mostafa died in an accident in 1955; th

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