{"id":22292,"date":"2026-09-21T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/ayatollah-shabiri-zanjani-dies-in-qom\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:15:14","slug":"ayatollah-shabiri-zanjani-dies-in-qom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/ayatollah-shabiri-zanjani-dies-in-qom\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Shiite cleric Ayatollah Shabiri Zanjani dies in Qom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Ayatollah Shabiri Zanjani said he died last night after spending two days in hospital in the city of Qom.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, his office said the funeral and burial arrangements would be announced later. No further details were given in the published statement about the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Shabiri Zanjani was considered one of the best-known figures in Shiite religious authority. The statement issued by his office referred to his scholarly and religious activities in seminaries and his standing among Shiite followers.<\/p>\n<p>Qom is one of the most important religious centres for Shiite Muslims in Iran, and a number of religious authorities reside there. The title of marja taqlid, or source of emulation, in Shiite jurisprudence refers to senior religious scholars whom followers consult on religious matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Shiite cleric Ayatollah Shabiri Zanjani has died in Qom after two days in hospital, his office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-religion-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}