Addressing a gathering of students, Ali Akbar Ziaei said that it would be difficult to find among the Muslim scholars a personality such as the great Imam who had well command over several Islamic sciences and disciplines of knowledge.
He went on saying that the great religious leader of the Muslim world has had an interdisciplinary approach to the problems facing the Muslim world.
Imam’s approach to several issues was a comprehensive as he had a great deal of knowledge about the several sciences including jurisprudence, philosophy, mysticism, literature and etc, the official said.
For an instance, if Imam had touched upon an issue relating to jurisprudence, then his approach would have been very deep, insightful, distinctive and all-inclusive with comparison to others, Ziaei noted.
The head of Iranian culture center also said that Imam confronted superstitious beliefs within seminaries and among the masses and promoted rational perspectives of the religion.
The Iranian intellectual also noted that the great Imam Khomeini also reformed the seminary system and promoted philosophy at a sensitive juncture of history when philosophical thought were not warmly welcomed by majority of Muslim scholars.
The official concluded that Imam made wide use of these philosophical thought to confront wrong beliefs and enrich his approach about the social and religious issue facing the Muslim societies.