Ayatollah Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani ( fa, لاریجانی میرزا هاشم آملی; 26 February 189925 February 1993) was an Iranian

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and scholar of jurisprudence.

Biography

Hashem Amoli Larijani was born on 26 February 1899 in the Pardameh village of Larijan, Mazandaran province. He studied Islamic sciences in

Amol Amol ( fa, آمل – ; ; also Romanized as Āmol and Amul) is a city and the administrative center of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran, with a population of around 300,000 people. Amol is located on the Haraz river bank. It is less tha ...

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, and Qom. In Tehran, he studied in Sepahsalar school which was managed by Hassan Modarres. In 1926, he went to Qom and stayed for six years. Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani achieved his

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like a PhD in university educational degree from

Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi Grand Ayatollah Hajj Sheikh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi ( fa, عبدالکریم حائری یزدی; ar, عبد الكريم الحائري اليزدي ; 1859 – 30 January 1937) was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and marja. He was the founder of ...

and Muhammad Hujjat Kuh-Kamari. After that Amoli migrated 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 ...

seminary and stayed there for thirty years. He moved back to Qom around 1963. Amoli was the father of one daughter (Fazeleh Larijani) and five sons ( Mohammad Javad Larijani, Fazel Larijani,

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, Sadegh Larijani and

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), who have held positions in the government of

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Teachers

* Muhammad Hujjat Kuh-Kamari * Mohammad Ali Shah Abadi * Abul Hassan Sha'rani * Agha Mirza Taher Tonekaboni * Mohammad Ali Lavasani * Mirza Yadollah Nazarpak * Seyyed Mohammad Tonekaboni * Mirza Mohammad Reza Faqihe Larijani * Agha Zia-Addin Araghi * Muhammad Hosein Na'ini *

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Students

Amoli's famous students include: * Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad *

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, * Mohammad-Hadi Marefat * Mohammad Yazdi.

Death

Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani died on 25 February 1993.

Ayatollah Amoli Larijani University

In 1999, Ayatollah Amoli Larijani University was founded and named after the death of Mirza Hashem Amoli in the Amol. The land of the university was donated by Hashem Amoli Larijani when he was alive and declared this land for promoting knowledge.

References

External links

Photo of Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani

Lost Gem, biography of Mirza Hashem Amoli Larijani
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amoli, Hashem Iranian scholars 20th-century Muslim theologians 1899 births 1993 deaths People from Amol Shia Islamists Iranian ayatollahs 20th-century Iranian philosophers