How was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini educated?

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, born into a family of religious leaders known as mullahs, was educated in Islamic religious schools. In 1922 he settled in Qom, Iran, one of the primary intellectual centres for Shiʿah Islam. There he became a prominent scholar in the 1930s and began producing numerous writings on Islamic philosophy, law, and ethics.