Baqer Moin

Baqer Moin is a BBC journalist and author. He has been described as "a specialist on Iran and Islam and is head of the BBC's Persian Service" (in 1999) [ [http://www.iranian.com/Books/1999/June/Khomeini/index.html From Khomein] ] and as "BBC's Central Asia specialist" (2001) [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/1584274.stm BBC Panorama, Ask Baqer Moin] ]

According to the American newspaper the New York Times, Moin grew up in Iran, where he learned "Persian and Arabic poetry, mysticism and philosophy from his father, who was trained as a cleric but earned a living as a farmer." Moin studied in the religious seminaries of Mashad in Eastern Iran before becoming a journalist. As of August 27, 2000 he was head of the BBC's Persian service, a broadcast service so influential in Iran that "even Ayatollah Khomeini listened to it". [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E0D9153EF934A1575BC0A9669C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=all The People's Shah By ELAINE SCIOLINO, August 27, 2000] ] He is the author of the book "Khomeini: Life of the Ayatolla." [ [http://www.iranian.com/Books/1999/June/Khomeini/index.html From Khomein] ] which the NY Times called "the first serious and accessible examination of the ayatollah's life." [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E0D9153EF934A1575BC0A9669C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=all The People's Shah By ELAINE SCIOLINO, August 27, 2000] ] Amazon.com describes him as having written extensively on Islam, Iran and Afghanistan." [ [http://www.amazon.ca/Khomeini-Life-Ayatollah-Baqer-Moin/dp/0312264909 About the author] ]

ee also

*Ruhollah Khomeini
*BBC

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