Majid Sharif

{{Short description|Iranian translator and journalist}}

{{distinguish|Majid Sharif Vaghefi}}

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|name = Majid Sharif

|image = Majid Sharif.jpg

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|birth_date = January/February 1951{{cite web |url=http://www.iranchamber.com/calendar/converter/iranian_calendar_converter.php |title=Iranian Calendar Converter |author= |date=2017-08-06 |website= iranchamber.com |access-date=2017-08-06 |quote=}} (The month of Bahman 1329 in the Jalali Calendar – given as the month of birth in the Persian-language article – corresponds to the time span from January 21, 1951 till February 19, 1951 in the Gregorian Calendar.)

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|death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|11|19|1951|1|}}{{cite web |url=http://www.iranchamber.com/calendar/converter/iranian_calendar_converter.php |title=Iranian Calendar Converter |author= |date=2017-08-06 |website= iranchamber.com |access-date=2017-08-06 |quote=}} (The Persian date of Aban 28, 1377 – given as the date of death in the Persian-language article – corresponds to November 19, 1998 in the Gregorian Calendar.)

|death_place = Tehran

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|known_for =

|occupation = Translator, journalist

|movement = Shariatism{{cite thesis|last=Vakily|first=Abdollah|date=November 1991|title=Ali Shariati and the Mystical Tradition of Islam|chapter=Previous Works on Shariati|publisher=Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University|publication-place=Montreal|type=M.A.|url=http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile60680.pdf|access-date=17 June 2017|page=8}}

|nationality = Iranian

|spouse = Mahshid Sharif

|children = 1

}}

Majid Sharif ({{langx|fa|مجید شریف}}; January/February 1951– November 19, 1998) was an Iranian translator and journalist who was one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran. He was a follower of the late Islamist modernist leftist theoretician Ali Shariati.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060104073841/http://www.iranterror.com/content/view/34/53/ Terror Database, The Serial Murders]}} Iranterror.com Articles by him criticizing Iranian government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5, 1998.[https://www.hrw.org/press98/dec/iranback.htm Background Briefing On The Killings in Iran] Human Rights Watch 1998 {{dead link|date=September 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}