Qualla: Feyziyeh School https://qualla.com/feyziyeh-school en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Feyziyeh School https://qualla.com/feyziyeh-school Feyziyeh School: Introduction https://qualla.com/feyziyeh-school/ On the afternoon of June 3, 1963, the courtyard of the Feyziyeh School was so packed with people that the crowd spilled into the adjacent Fatima Masumeh Shrine courtyard, filled the Astana square, and choked the surrounding streets of Qom. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stood before them and called the Shah of Iran a "wretched, miserable man." Two days later, commandos arrested him at three in the morning. The speech, the arrest, and the uprising they triggered -- the Movement of 15 Khordad -- set Iran on a path toward revolution. The building where it happened had already been standing for centuries.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/h/j/feyziyeh-school-wp/tnhj-feyziyeh-school-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Feyziyeh School: Centuries of Teaching https://qualla.com/feyziyeh-school/ The Feyziyeh School was founded during the Safavid era, with an epigraph on the south veranda dating its construction to the reign of Shah Tahmasp in the 16th century. Before it was called Feyziyeh, a school named Astana occupied the same site, operating from roughly the 12th to ...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/h/j/feyziyeh-school-wp/tnhj-feyziyeh-school-centuries-of-teaching.mp3 0:06 2 full Feyziyeh School: The Shah Picks a Fight https://qualla.com/feyziyeh-school/ In 1963, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi announced the White Revolution, a sweeping package of reforms that included land redistribution, women's suffrage, and the nationalization of forests. Members of the Iranian clergy were particularly angered by the land reforms, which threatened...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/h/j/feyziyeh-school-wp/tnhj-feyziyeh-school-the-shah-picks-a-fight.mp3 0:06 3 full Feyziyeh School: Blood on Holy Ground https://qualla.com/feyziyeh-school/ On 22 March 1963, coinciding with the commemorative death day of the Shia Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, the Shah's forces attacked the Feyziyeh School. Students and bystanders were killed. The assault on a religious seminary during a sacred commemoration was calculated to intimidate, but...

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/n/h/j/feyziyeh-school-wp/tnhj-feyziyeh-school-blood-on-holy-ground.mp3 0:06 4 full Feyziyeh School: Three O'Clock in the Morning https://qualla.com/feyziyeh-school/ Two days after the sermon, at 3 a.m. on June 5, 1963, police and commandos entered Khomeini's home in Qom and placed him under arrest. They transferred him to Qasr Prison in Tehran. The arrest triggered the Movement of 15 Khordad -- named for its date on the Iranian calendar -- w...

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