Religious leader and scholar. Mutahhari was an Iranian religious leader and scholar who developed close relations with Ayatollah Khomeini, Alama Hussain Tabatabai and others and settled in Qom. Mutahhari was appointed to the Shura-yi Inqilab-i-Islami after the revolution in 1979 but was assassinated soon after by a group called Furqan. Mutahhari authored most important book Usul-i-falsafah va ravish-i-realism in four volumes and Nizam-i-Huquq-i-zan der Islam.