Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Mohammed Mohsen Razi (محمد محسن بن علي بن محمد رضا الطهراني النجفي), popularly known as Agha (Aqa) Bozorg Tehrani () (11 Rabi-I 1293 – 13 Zul-Hijjah 1389 AH /7 April 1876 – 20 February 1970), was born in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

. He was a

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 ...

marja from Hawza Elmiye

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 ...

. He was the teacher of Grand Ayatollah Ali Hussaini Sistani,

Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussain Najafi Shaikh Muhammad Hussain Najafi ( ar, آيت الله العظمى علامه شيخ محمد حسين) (born 1932) is a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja. As of current, there are two maraji of Pakistani descent. The first one is he himself an ...

, and many others. He wrote, among others, the following notable books: * ''Al-Dharīʿa ilā Taṣānīf al-Shīʿa (List of Shia Books)'' (26 volumes),WWW.SADEQIN.COM : پایگاه اطلاع رسانی صادقین
the list was compiled in 1908 * '' Ṭabaqāt aʿlām al-Shīʿa (List of Shia Ulema)'' (9 volumes) * ''Mosannafet-e Shi`e'' (6 volumes) * ''Mustadrak kashf al-ẓunūn'' or ''Dhayl kashf al-zunūn'', Tehran, Maktabat al-Islāmiyya and also Ja'fari Tabrizi, 1387/1967.Se
biography
with more publications.

References

External links

(this web page has comment by Aqa Bozorg Tehrani on book Tahzeeb al-Ahkam (by Sheikh Toosi).
Translation of Biography of Aqa Bozorg Tehrani from Persian via Google translate
19th-century biographers 19th-century Iranian writers 20th-century Iranian writers Bibliographers Iranian Shia clerics Iranian emigrants to Iraq Iraqi ayatollahs Writers from Tehran Encyclopedists Pupils of Muhammad Kadhim Khorasani {{Iraq-reli-bio-stub