associations of individuals with a common professional interest, intended to promote learning. Many societies publish the proceedings of their meeting...
1930–, Shiite grand ayatollah in Iraq, b. Mashhad, Iran. Educated in religious schools in his native Iran, he went to Shiite holy city of Najaf, Ira...
general term for the political and economic theory that advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of produc...