# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asadollah-bayat-zanjani
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:58:54.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/asadollah-bayat-zanjani"
name: "Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani"
slug: "asadollah-bayat-zanjani"
description: "Grand Ayatollah Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani is an Iranian theologian, Islamic philosopher, writer and Grand marja of Islam. He has published objections to Iran's system of Islamic Jurist Guardianship known as velayat-e faqih, asserting that this system is not founded on Islam."
tagline: "Iranian grand ayatollah"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "আসাদুল্লাহ বায়াত জানজানি"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump