At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist · Politician
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
shia-twelver (documented)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Early life and formation
He was born Hassan Fereydoun at Sorkheh in Semnan province, began seminary studies there and at Qom, and later took a law degree at the University of Tehran and graduate degrees in Glasgow while already a figure of the revolutionary movement. The Persian article presents him as a politician and cleric who was the seventh president of the Islamic Republic. 1 2 3
Career and presidency
Rouhani sat in the Majlis from 1980 to 2000, served as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005, and was Iran's chief nuclear negotiator in 2003–2005. Elected president in 2013 and re-elected in 2017, his government concluded the 2015 nuclear agreement with the world powers; the Arabic article gives his presidency as running from 3 August 2013 to 3 August 2021. 1 4
Religion
His faith is recorded as Shia Twelver, documented, under the museum's Shia-mapping rule, with the mapping stated. Two independent texts attest "Shia" of him personally: the English lead's statement that he served as a Shia mujtahid, and the Arabic lead's description of him as a Shia Islamic scholar. It is disclosed that the Arabic clause closely parallels the English lead, though differently worded and differently sourced; if the two editions are treated as one family the value falls to unknown. Neither text names a branch; the branch comes from the stated context — a mujtahid formed at the Qom hawza, the Arabic infobox's "Islam, Twelver Shia", and the English article's filing of him among Twelvers — while Wikidata carries Shia Islam in general only. 1 4 3
Sources
- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in
data/source/. - Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact.
Connections
- Predecessor of
- Ebrahim Raisi
- Successor of
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
People and things also explored
Mohammad Khatami· Mashhad· Ebrahim Raisi· Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Sources
- Hassan Rouhani — English Wikipedia
- Hassan Rouhani — Persian Wikipedia
- Hassan Rouhani — Wikidata Q348144
- Hassan Rouhani — Arabic Wikipedia
- Hassan Rouhani — Urdu Wikipedia
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Hassan Rouhani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hassan-rouhani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.