Ayatullah
Ayatollah ( ; fa, آیتالله, āyatollāh) is an honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq that came into widespread usage in the 20th century.
Etymology
The title is originally derived from Arabic word pr ...
Agha
Hajji Mirza Mahdi Puya Yazdi (1899 (1317
A.H., also spelled as 'Pooya') – 1973 (1393
A.H.)) was a
Twelver Shia Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
and an
Islamic scholar, most notable for his famous
tafsir of the
Qur'an. The son of the scholar Agha Mirza Muhammad Hasan of Yazd, Iran, Ayatullah Puya studied under his father as well as the eminent religious authority Agha Mirza Muhammad Husain al-Na'ini, who helped him to develop his interpretive specialization in the Qur'an. Unsettled political conditions in Iran and Iraq helped to persuade Ayatullah Puya to migrate from al-Najaf to India in 1343/1925. He settled down in Madras and Bangalore, where he gained the chance to study modern western thought directly in English, so that he became equipped to evaluate the diverse intellectual trends of both east and west. In Madras also he encountered Mir Ahmad Ali, who produced the first substantial Shi`i commentary on the Qur'an in English and who incorporated Ayatullah Puya's illuminating philosophical notes on the verses of the Qur'an into his work. Ayatullah Puya later moved to Pakistan, where he died in Karachi on 17 July 1973. He left two sons, Agha Murtaza Pooya and Agha Mirza Ali Pooya.
Works
His complete exegesis (
tafsir) can be accessed b
Al-Quranproject. An abrogated version of his can be accessed through
Ahlul Bayt DILP at thei
quranic website
External links
Al-Quranproject includes the Qur'an translation and commentary by Ayatollah Pooya (A.P.)
References
1899 births
1973 deaths
Pakistani ayatollahs
Muhajir people
{{islam-scholar-stub