Zia'eddin Araghi also known as Agha Zia'eddin Araghi ( fa, آقا ضیاء الدین عراقی) was an eminent

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...

jurist, Usuli and

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during the flourishing the

Usul Fiqh in Ja'fari school Ja'fari principles ( fa, علم اصول در مکتب جعفری) refers to regulations, history and eminent persons and scholars during the development of Shia's Principles of Islamic jurisprudence. History and development Imami jurists and ...

in Shia after

Muhammad Baqir Behbahani Muhammad Baqir ibn Muhammad Akmal al-Wahid Bihbahani, also Vahid Behbahani (1706–1791), was a Twelver Shia Islamic scholar. He is widely regarded as the founder or restorer of the ''Usuli'' school of Twelver Shi'a Islam and as playing a vita ...

Family

Araghi was born in 1861 in Arak,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. His name was Shaykh Ali but he was known as Zia Addin. His father was Mulla Muhammad Kabir Araghi and was Shia jurist and

Education

First he learned the preliminary stages in Arak and then travelled to

Isfahan Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...

and resided in Sadr religious school. He participated in

in the courses of Masters like Agha Sayyed Muhammad Hashim Chahar Souqi, Mirza Jahangir Khan Qashqaei, Akhun Muhammad Kashi, and Abul Ma'ali Kalbasi. Then he Immigrated to

Najaf Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. Before coming to

, he first had the place of judge in Samara but this occupation did not satisfy him. Among his known masters in

there were Mirza Habib Rashrti, Akhund Khorasani, Sayyed Muhammad Kazim Tabatabei Yazdi, Mirza Khalil Hoseini, Shaykh Al Shariah, Sayyed Muhammad Tabatabei Fesharaki, and Mirza Ebrahim Mahallati Shirazi.

Pupils

He also taught many eminent pupils such as following: *Sayyed Muhsin Hakim *Sayyed Muhammad Taqi Khansari *Sayyed Abul Qasem Khansari *Sayyed Mahmud Shahroudi *Sayyed Abul Qasem Khoei *The late Muhammad Taqi Bahjat *Sayyed Abdullah Shirazi *Sayyed Abdul Hadi Shirazi *Sayyed Aul Hasan Shirazi *Ayatollah Qaravi Aliyari *Shaykh Muhammad Taqi Amoli *

Mirza Hashem Amoli Ayatollah Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani ( fa, لاریجانی میرزا هاشم آملی; 26 February 189925 February 1993) was an Iranian Shia Marja' and scholar of jurisprudence. Biography Hashem Amoli Larijani was born on 26 February 1899 ...

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{{authority control Iranian writers People of the Persian Constitutional Revolution Iranian grand ayatollahs Pupils of Muhammad Kadhim Khorasani People from Arak, Iran 1861 births Year of death missing

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Education

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