“Khomeini … was a paradigm of asceticism, which in Islam was not a withdrawal from worldly affairs but a refusal to be seduced by materialism. He was incorruptible.”

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 64

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