Azizollah Khoshvaqt ( fa, عزیزالله خوشوقت), also known as

Ayatollah Ayatollah ( ; fa, آیت‌الله, āyatollāh) is an Title of honor, 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 ...

Khoshvaqt (1926 – 19 February 2013), was a contemporary

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, mystic,

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and faqih. He was a student of

Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i or Sayyid Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i (16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam. He is perhaps best known for his ''T ...

Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Ali Tababataei Borujerdi (Luri/ fa, آیت الله العظمی سید حسین طباطبایی بروجردی; 23 March 1875 – 30 March 1961) was a leading Iranian Shia Marja' in Iran from approximately 1947 t ...

and Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini. He was the second child of the family, went to seminary after passing high-school, and went to

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after educating for five years in Lorzadeh mosque in Tehran. Azizollah Khoshvaght came back to Tehran after the end of his seminary education, and got married at the age of 33, and the result of this marriage was 2 sons and 4 daughters for him. His parents were from Zanjan. Khoshvaqt is considered to be a prominent scholar, Faqih and a teacher of ethics. Azizollah Khoshvaght who was also well known as Aziz Khoshvaght, was also the Imam Jama'a of Imam Hassan-Mojtaba mosque in Tehran. Azizollah Khoshvaght died at the age of 86, when he was in Mecca on 19 February 2013.

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1926 births 2013 deaths Iranian ayatollahs People from Zanjan Province People from Tehran Iranian grand ayatollahs {{theologian-stub

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