Mirza Ahmad Ashtiani ( fa , میرزا احمد آشتیانی) (1882 – 1975 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 ...

) Iranian Shi'a jurist and philosopher. He taught theology in

for about 40 years.

Birth

Mirza Ahmad Ashtiani was born in Tehran. He was the fourth and youngest son of Mirza Hassan Ashtiani, a prominent jurist under the reign

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar ( fa, مظفرالدین شاه قاجار, Mozaffar ad-Din Ŝāh-e Qājār; 23 March 1853 – 3 January 1907), was the fifth shah of Qajar Iran, reigning from 1896 until his death in 1907. He is often credited with t ...

and

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ( fa, ناصرالدین‌شاه قاجار; 16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. He was the son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and Malek ...

. He became a jurist and a Shi'a Imam,

Education

After studying liberal arts, he took courses in the philosophy of law. After his father's death, his education then became more philosophy-centric, and he began teaching in the school ''Sepahsalar''. After a while studying different philosophical subjects, he took advanced courses in Transcendentalism, Mysticism, medicine, mathematics and astronomy. In 1961, he headed to Najafm where addition to Mirza Nain and Qazya’aldyn Iraqi, established his own philosophy of parliamentarianism course. After ten years of residence in Najaf, returned to Tehran, Iran, where he spent the rest of his life, teaching social sciences, writing books, and guiding the people.

Students

* Mustafa Hussaini Tabatabaie * Allama Seyyed jalal al-addin Ashtiani *

Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli Hassan Hasanzadeh Amoli ( fa, حسن حسن‌زاده آملی, 12 February 1929 – 25 September 2021) was an Iranian Shi'ite theologian known for his mystical tendencies and Islamic philosophy. He was among clerics who overcomed the tradition ...

* Mirza Mohammad Bagher Ashtiani * Mohammad Sadeghi Tehrani * Seyed Abbas Tabatabaei

References

{{Reflist People from Tehran Iranian Shia scholars of Islam 1882 births 1975 deaths