Abbas Tabrizian
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Abbas Tabrizian | |
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عباس تبریزیان | |
| File:Abbas Tabrizian.jpg Abbas Tabrizian giving a lecture in 2017 | |
| Title | Ayatollah |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Jurisprudence | Twelver Shia Islam |
| Alma mater | Hawza Najaf[1] |
| Known for | Denying current medical science and promoting Islamic medical sciences |
| Website | abbastabrizian.ir |
Ayatollah[2] Abbas Tabrizian (Persian: عباس تبریزیان) is an Iranian Shia cleric and quack[3] who rejects academic medicine.
According to Al-Monitor, he is regarded as "a figure of ridicule" to most Iranians.[1]
Practices
He offers a service referred to as "Islamic Medicine", which is designated as a threat to the public health by Iran's ministry of health.[4] Tabrizian also instructs the presumed diagnoses to his followers,[5] including recommendations for "womb preparation" and "treatment of brain debility", alongside medications such as "nerve strengthener" and "blood detoxifier".[4] He operates a popular online shop, selling those drugs.[6]
He maintains that Islamic narrations can help cure any disease and by adopting a "true Islamic lifestyle", people would never need medical treatment.[7]
Tabrizian describes immunisation as "promoted by the colonialist medicine".[3]
Controversy
In January 2020, a video of his book burning ceremony went viral on social media, in which he set a copy of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine on fire with lighter. Iranian officials and authorities of Shia seminaries condemned the act.[8]
In February 2021, he again hit the headlines after making a bizarre claim that people who have received the Vaccination for COVID-19 have become homosexuals, and urged people to stay away from them.[9][10][11]
See Also
References
- ^ a b c Faghihi, Rohollah (10 March 2020), "A cleric's cure for coronavirus becomes butt of jokes in Iran", Al-Monitor, retrieved 20 March 2020
- ^ "تراریخته تغذیه استعماری است- اخبار استانها تسنیم | Tasnim". خبرگزاری تسنیم | Tasnim (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ^ a b Aramesh, Kiarash (July 2018). "Science and Pseudoscience in Traditional Iranian Medicine". Archives of Iranian Medicine. 21 (7). Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences: 315–323. PMID 30041531.
- ^ a b Iran’s Health Officials Raise Alarm over Islamic Medicine, Radio Zamaneh, 26 September 2017, retrieved 27 January 2020
- ^ Fatima Mirza, Aliya (2018). "A Review on the Chemical versus Alternative Treatments of Leukemia". Traditional and Integrative Medicine. 3 (3). Tehran University of Medical Sciences: 147–161. eISSN 2476-5112.
- ^ "Desperate Iranians are getting bad medical advice". The Economist. 18 April 2020.
- ^ Islamic Medicine cures every disease, Hawzah News, 21 April 2016, retrieved 27 January 2020
- ^ Burning Medical Book By Advocate of 'Islamic Medicine" Causes Outrage In Iran, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 25 January 2020, retrieved 27 January 2020
- ^ "شیخ تبریزیان از کجا فهمید هرکس واکسن کرونا تزریق کند همجنس باز می شود؟". خبرآنلاین (in Persian). 2021-02-08. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ^ "ادعای جدید تبریزیان: واکسن کرونا تمایلات همجنس‌گرایانه ایجاد می‌کند | به کسانی که واکسن می‌زنند نزدیک نشوید!". همشهری آنلاین (in Persian). 2021-02-07. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ^ "Iranian cleric claims COVID-19 vaccine turns people into 'homosexuals'". New York Post. 2021-02-08. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
External links
- Official website (archived)
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