Mohammad Bagher Estahbanati ( fa, محمد باقر اصطهباناتی; born 1837) was a Persian
Faqīh, writer, mathematician and inventor. He was born in
Estahban
Estahban ( fa, استهبان, ar, اصطهبانات, also Romanized as Estahbān and Eşţahbān; formerly, Eşţahbānāt, Estehbanat, Istehbānāt, Istahbanát and Shahr-e Eşţahbānāt; also formerly known as Savānāt) is a city and capita ...
.
Education
When Estahbanati was 12, he attended
Shiraz Mansouriyah school where he stayed for eight years. In 1867, he went to Tehran with other student masters such as Mr Wise (Madras), Mohammad Hakim Qmshhay, Mirza Abolhassan Jelve, Mulla Ali Kenny and Syed Mehdi Najafi Qazvini. In 1879 he returned to Shiraz. Due to a conflict with Ghavamolmolk (the Persian ruler) he was exiled to
Samarra
Samarra ( ar, سَامَرَّاء, ') is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, north of Baghdad. The city of Samarra was founded by Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutasim for his Turkish professional army ...
, where he took lessons from
Mirza Mohammed Hassan Husseini Shirazi which qualified him to exercise
ijtihad
''Ijtihad'' ( ; ar, اجتهاد ', ; lit. physical or mental ''effort'') is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a le ...
.
After Shirazi's death, Estahbanati went to
Najaf, where he founded his philosophical field. His dissertation is a collection of thousands of bits of poetry that explain the sciences, such as
jurisprudence and judgements through to poetic language and religion. He was also a professor of mathematics and its affiliates. Various of his articles have remained in the field. Prevention, and health and hygiene in additional medical attention.
Personal life
In 1879,
Ayatollah Estahbanati married Larijani, the daughter of Mohammad Hassan. She died in 1900. He was the son of Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Ravanshad, known as Ravanshad the philosopher.
Death
Estahbanati was killed during an insurrection led by the people of Shiraz. His body was interred in the garden Ghazal Hafeziyeh.
See also
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Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili
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Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili
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Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
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Five Martyrs of Shia Islam
References
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Iranian Shia clerics
Iranian Shia scholars of Islam